Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter I., sentence 6
Thus the roads were covered with scattered flocks and herds, and with spoil of all kind.
What happens: cover, spoil · To what, where: roads, kind
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: 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 | Thus | thus | ADV | _ | 5 covered | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 roads | det |
| 3 | roads | road | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 covered | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 covered | aux:pass |
| 5 | covered | cover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 flocks | case |
| 7 | scattered | scatter | ADJ | _ | 8 flocks | amod |
| 8 | flocks | flock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 covered | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 herds | cc |
| 10 | herds | herd | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 flocks | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 spoil | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 spoil | cc |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 spoil | case |
| 14 | spoil | spoil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 covered | conj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 kind | case |
| 16 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 17 kind | det |
| 17 | kind | kind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 spoil | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 covered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cover | past · passive | the roads | with scattered flocks and herds; spoil of all kind conj; thus property | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with flock=Theme | ||||
| 2 | spoil | all kind | nom spoil «possession 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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