Legends of the conquest of Spain, Capture of Granada.—subjugation of the Alpuxarra Mountains., sentence 19
These were the “Mountains of the Sun and Air;” and the perpetual snows on their summits gave birth to streams that fertilised the plains.
Who acts: perpetual, Mountains, streams · What happens: be, snow, give, fertilis · To what, where: Mountains, summits, birth, streams, plains
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 (perpetual, Mountains, streams), 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 | These | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 5 Mountains | det |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 Mountains | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Mountains | det |
| 4 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 Mountains | punct |
| 5 | Mountains | Mountain | PROPN | Number=Plur | 20 gave | nsubj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 Sun | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Sun | det |
| 8 | Sun | Sun | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Mountains | nmod |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 Air | cc |
| 10 | Air | Air | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Sun | conj |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 5 Mountains | punct |
| 12 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 Mountains | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 snows | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 perpetual | det |
| 15 | perpetual | perpetual | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 snows | nsubj |
| 16 | snows | snow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 Mountains | conj |
| 17 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 summits | case |
| 18 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 summits | nmod:poss |
| 19 | summits | summit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 snows | obl |
| 20 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 21 | birth | birth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 gave | obj |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 streams | case |
| 23 | streams | stream | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 gave | obl |
| 24 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 fertilised | nsubj |
| 25 | fertilised | fertilis | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 streams | acl:relcl |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 plains | det |
| 27 | plains | plain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 fertilised | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 20 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | past | this Mountains | of the Sun and Air | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | snow | present | the perpetual | mountains's summits | vn weather-57 «It V PP.theme» | ||||
| 3 | give | past | this Mountains | birth | streams | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent birth=Theme to stream=Recipient | |||
| 4 | fertilis | past | streams | the plains | tree rules |
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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