Legends of the conquest of Spain, Capture of Granada.—subjugation of the Alpuxarra Mountains., sentence 30
At length they came to a defile where the mountains seemed to have been rent asunder to make way for a foaming torrent.
Who acts: valleys, mountains · What happens: come, seem, rend, make · To what, where: length, asunder, way
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 (valleys, 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 length | case |
| 2 | length | length | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 came | obl |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 came | nsubj |
| 4 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 defile | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 defile | det |
| 7 | defile | defile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 came | obl |
| 8 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 11 seemed | advmod |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 mountains | det |
| 10 | mountains | mountain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 seemed | nsubj |
| 11 | seemed | seem | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 defile | acl:relcl |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 rent | mark |
| 13 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 15 rent | aux |
| 14 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 15 rent | aux:pass |
| 15 | rent | rend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 seemed | xcomp |
| 16 | asunder | asunder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 rent | obj |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 make | mark |
| 18 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 rent | advcl |
| 19 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 make | obj |
| 20 | for | for | ADP | _ | 23 torrent | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 torrent | det |
| 22 | foaming | foaming | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 torrent | compound |
| 23 | torrent | torrent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 make | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | valleys = valley | length | to a defile | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to defile=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | seem | past | the mountains | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | |||||
| 3 | rend | to-infinitive · perfect · passive | the mountains not said here | asunder | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: asunder=Patient | ||||
| 4 | make | to-infinitive | the mountains not said here | way | for a foaming torrent | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: agent=Agent way=Product for torrent=Asset |
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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