Legends of the conquest of Spain, Capture of Granada.—subjugation of the Alpuxarra Mountains., sentence 27
The mountains were strangely wild and sterile; broken into cliffs and precipices of variegated marble.
Who acts: mountains · What happens: be, break, variegate · To what, where: cliffs
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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 mountains | det |
| 2 | mountains | mountain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 wild | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 wild | cop |
| 4 | strangely | strangely | ADV | _ | 5 wild | advmod |
| 5 | wild | wild | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 sterile | cc |
| 7 | sterile | sterile | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 wild | conj |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 9 broken | punct |
| 9 | broken | break | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 wild | parataxis |
| 10 | into | into | ADP | _ | 11 cliffs | case |
| 11 | cliffs | cliff | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 broken | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 precipices | cc |
| 13 | precipices | precipice | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 cliffs | conj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 marble | case |
| 15 | variegated | variegate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 marble | amod |
| 16 | marble | marble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 precipices | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 wild | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the mountains | strangely, wild property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | the mountains not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | break | participle | into cliffs and precipices of variegated marble result | vn break-45.1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Patient into cliff=Result | |||||
| 4 | variegate | participle | 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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