Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter I., sentence 2
The overthrow of King Roderick and his army on the banks of the Guadalete, threw open all southern Spain to the inroads of the moslems.
Who acts: overthrow · What happens: throw, overthrow · To what, where: southern Spain, inroads, King Roderick
This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Chapter I.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (overthrow), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 overthrow | det |
| 2 | overthrow | overthrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 threw | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 Roderick | case |
| 4 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Roderick | compound |
| 5 | Roderick | Roderick | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 overthrow | nmod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 army | cc |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 army | nmod:poss |
| 8 | army | army | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 Roderick | conj |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 banks | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 banks | det |
| 11 | banks | bank | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 army | nmod |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 Guadalete | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Guadalete | det |
| 14 | Guadalete | Guadalete | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 banks | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 overthrow | punct |
| 16 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 threw | xcomp |
| 18 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 20 Spain | det |
| 19 | southern | southern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 Spain | amod |
| 20 | Spain | Spain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 threw | obj |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 inroads | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 inroads | det |
| 23 | inroads | inroad | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 threw | obl |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 moslems | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 moslems | det |
| 26 | moslems | moslem | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 inroads | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 threw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | throw | past | the overthrow of King Roderick and overthrow's army on the banks of the Guadalete | all southern Spain | the inroads of the moslems | open property | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent spain=Theme to inroad=Destination | ||
| 2 | overthrow | King Roderick and overthrow's army on the banks of the Guadalete | nom overthrow «act transitive»: of=patient |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Project Gutenberg book 77685 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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