Legends of the conquest of Spain, Capture of Granada.—subjugation of the Alpuxarra Mountains., sentence 20
In their bosoms, shut up among cliffs and precipices, were many small valleys of great beauty and abundance.
Who acts: mountains · What happens: shut up, be, bosom · To what, where: bosoms, many small valleys
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 (mountains), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 bosoms | case |
| 2 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 bosoms | nmod:poss |
| 3 | bosoms | bosom | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 valleys | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 shut | punct |
| 5 | shut | shut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 bosoms | acl |
| 6 | up | up | ADP | _ | 5 shut | compound:prt |
| 7 | among | among | ADP | _ | 8 cliffs | case |
| 8 | cliffs | cliff | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 shut | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 precipices | cc |
| 10 | precipices | precipice | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 cliffs | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 bosoms | punct |
| 12 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 valleys | cop |
| 13 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 valleys | amod |
| 14 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 valleys | amod |
| 15 | valleys | valley | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 beauty | case |
| 17 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 beauty | amod |
| 18 | beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 valleys | nmod |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 abundance | cc |
| 20 | abundance | abundance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 beauty | conj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 valleys | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shut up | participle | mountains's bosoms not said here | among cliffs and precipices | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is a | past | many small valleys | mountains's bosoms | of great beauty and abundance | tree rules | |||
| 3 | bosom | mountains = mountain | nom bosom «state transitive»: poss=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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