Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter I., sentence 29
The letter overtook the veteran Taric while in the full glow of triumphant success; having overrun some of the richest part of Andalusia, and just received the surrender of the city of Ecija.
Who acts: letter, triumphant success · What happens: overtake, have overrun, receive, glow, surrender · To what, where: veteran, some, surrender, city
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 (letter, triumphant success), 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 letter | det |
| 2 | letter | letter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 overtook | nsubj |
| 3 | overtook | overtake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 veteran | det |
| 5 | veteran | veteran | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 overtook | obj |
| 6 | Taric | Taric | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 veteran | appos |
| 7 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 11 glow | mark |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 glow | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 glow | det |
| 10 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 glow | amod |
| 11 | glow | glow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 overtook | advcl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 success | case |
| 13 | triumphant | triumphant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 success | amod |
| 14 | success | success | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 glow | nmod |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 having | punct |
| 16 | having | have | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 overtook | advcl |
| 17 | overrun | overrun | ADP | _ | 16 having | compound:prt |
| 18 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 16 having | obj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 part | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 part | det |
| 21 | richest | rich | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 22 part | amod |
| 22 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 some | nmod |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 Andalusia | case |
| 24 | Andalusia | Andalusia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 part | nmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 received | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 received | cc |
| 27 | just | just | ADV | _ | 28 received | advmod |
| 28 | received | receive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 overtook | parataxis |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 surrender | det |
| 30 | surrender | surrender | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 received | obj |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 city | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 city | det |
| 33 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 surrender | nmod |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 Ecija | case |
| 35 | Ecija | Ecija | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 city | nmod |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 overtook | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | overtake | past | the letter | the veteran | the full glow of triumphant success advcl | tree rules | |||
| 2 | have overrun | gerund | the letter not said here | some of the richest part of Andalusia | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent some=Patient | ||||
| 3 | receive | past | the surrender of the city of Ecija | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent surrender=Theme | |||||
| 4 | glow | triumphant success | nom glow «state intransitive»: of=agent | ||||||
| 5 | surrender | the city of Ecija | nom surrender «feeling 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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