Legends of the conquest of Spain, Capture of Granada.—subjugation of the Alpuxarra Mountains., sentence 17
Even the delights of Granada had no power to detain the active and ardent Taric.
Who acts: delights, Granada · What happens: have, detain, delight · To what, where: power, active Taric
This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Capture of Granada.—subjugation of the Alpuxarra Mountains.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (delights, Granada), 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 | Even | even | ADV | _ | 3 delights | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 delights | det |
| 3 | delights | delight | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 had | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 Granada | case |
| 5 | Granada | Granada | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 delights | nmod |
| 6 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 8 power | det |
| 8 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 had | obj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 detain | mark |
| 10 | detain | detain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 power | acl |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Taric | det |
| 12 | active | active | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 Taric | amod |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 ardent | cc |
| 14 | ardent | ardent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 active | conj |
| 15 | Taric | Taric | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 detain | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | the delights of Granada | no power | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent power=Patient | ||||
| 2 | detain | to-infinitive | the delights of Granada not said here | the active Taric | vn confine-92 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent taric=Theme | ||||
| 3 | delight | Granada | nom delight «feeling intransitive»: of=agent |
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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