Legends of the conquest of Spain, Capture of Granada.—subjugation of the Alpuxarra Mountains., sentence 28

At their feet were little valleys enamelled with groves and gardens, interlaced with silver streams, and studded with villages and hamlets; but all deserted by their inhabitants.

What happens: be, enamell, interlace, stud, desert · To what, where: little valleys, feet, groves

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: 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	At	at	ADP	_	3 feet	case
2	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 feet	nmod:poss
3	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 valleys	obl
4	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 valleys	cop
5	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 valleys	amod
6	valleys	valley	NOUN	Number=Plur	root	root
7	enamelled	enamell	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 valleys	acl
8	with	with	ADP	_	9 groves	case
9	groves	grove	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 enamelled	obl:agent
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 gardens	cc
11	gardens	garden	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 groves	conj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 interlaced	punct
13	interlaced	interlace	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	9 groves	acl
14	with	with	ADP	_	16 streams	case
15	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 streams	compound
16	streams	stream	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 interlaced	obl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 studded	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 studded	cc
19	studded	stud	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 interlaced	conj
20	with	with	ADP	_	21 villages	case
21	villages	village	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 studded	obl
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 hamlets	cc
23	hamlets	hamlet	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 villages	conj
24	;	;	PUNCT	_	27 deserted	punct
25	but	but	CCONJ	_	27 deserted	cc
26	all	all	ADV	_	27 deserted	advmod
27	deserted	desert	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 valleys	acl
28	by	by	ADP	_	30 inhabitants	case
29	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 inhabitants	nmod:poss
30	inhabitants	inhabitant	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 deserted	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 valleys	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is a	past	little valleys	mountains's feet		tree rules
2	enamell	participle	little valleys not said here		groves and gardens obl:agent	tree rules
3	interlace	participle	groves and gardens not said here		with silver streams	vn amalgamate-22.2-2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Patient with stream=Co-Patient
4	stud	participle			with villages and hamlets	vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with village=Theme
5	desert	participle	little valleys not said here		by mountains's inhabitants; all property	vn leave-51.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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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🌲 Legends of the conquest of Spain, Capture of Granada.—subjugation of the Alpuxarra Mountains., sentence 28

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Legends of the conquest of Spain, Capture of Granada.—subjugation of the Alpuxarra Mountains., sentence 28