Legends of the conquest of Spain, Capture of Granada.—subjugation of the Alpuxarra Mountains., sentence 33
This awful defile has ever been famous in the warlike history of those mountains, by the name, in former times, of the Barranco de Tocos, and at present of the bridge of Tablete.
Who acts: awful defile · What happens: have, be · To what, where: warlike history
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 (awful defile), 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 defile | det |
| 2 | awful | awful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 defile | amod |
| 3 | defile | defile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 has | nsubj |
| 4 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 7 famous | advmod |
| 6 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 famous | cop |
| 7 | famous | famous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 has | obj |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 history | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 history | det |
| 10 | warlike | warlike | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 history | amod |
| 11 | history | history | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 famous | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 mountains | case |
| 13 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 14 mountains | det |
| 14 | mountains | mountain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 history | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 name | punct |
| 16 | by | by | ADP | _ | 18 name | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 name | det |
| 18 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 history | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 times | punct |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 times | case |
| 21 | former | former | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 times | amod |
| 22 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 has | obl:unmarked |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 Tocos | punct |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 Tocos | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 Tocos | det |
| 26 | Barranco | Barranco | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 Tocos | compound |
| 27 | de | de | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 Barranco | flat |
| 28 | Tocos | Tocos | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 times | parataxis |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 present | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 present | cc |
| 31 | at | at | ADP | _ | 32 present | case |
| 32 | present | present | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 Tocos | appos |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 bridge | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 bridge | det |
| 35 | bridge | bridge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 present | nmod |
| 36 | of | of | ADP | _ | 37 Tablete | case |
| 37 | Tablete | Tablete | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 bridge | nmod |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 has | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | this awful defile | time | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is | participle | the warlike history of that mountains and the name | ever | famous property | 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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