Legends of the conquest of Spain, Capture of Granada.—subjugation of the Alpuxarra Mountains., sentence 31
The narrow and broken road wound along the dizzy edge of precipices, until it came to where a bridge was thrown across the chasm.
Who acts: narrow road wound · What happens: come, throw · To what, where: bridge, chasm
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 (narrow road wound), 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 | 6 wound | det |
| 2 | narrow | narrow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 wound | amod |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 broken | cc |
| 4 | broken | broken | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 narrow | conj |
| 5 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 wound | compound |
| 6 | wound | wound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 came | nsubj |
| 7 | along | along | ADP | _ | 10 edge | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 edge | det |
| 9 | dizzy | dizzy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 edge | amod |
| 10 | edge | edge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 wound | nmod |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 precipices | case |
| 12 | precipices | precipice | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 edge | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 came | punct |
| 14 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 16 came | mark |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 came | nsubj |
| 16 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | to | to | SCONJ | _ | 22 thrown | mark |
| 18 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 22 thrown | advmod |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 bridge | det |
| 20 | bridge | bridge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 thrown | nsubj:pass |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 thrown | aux:pass |
| 22 | thrown | throw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 came | advcl |
| 23 | across | across | ADP | _ | 25 chasm | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 chasm | det |
| 25 | chasm | chasm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 thrown | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | the narrow road wound along the dizzy edge of precipices | wound nsubj | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | throw | past · passive | a bridge | the chasm | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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