Legends of the conquest of Spain, Capture of Granada.—subjugation of the Alpuxarra Mountains., sentence 4
After marching some distance through the country, he entered one day a vast and beautiful plain, interspersed with villages, adorned with groves and gardens, watered by winding rivers, and surrounded by lofty mountains.
Who acts: terror · What happens: march, enter, intersperse, adorn, water, wind · To what, where: distance, country, vast plain, villages, groves, rivers
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 (terror), 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 | After | after | SCONJ | _ | 2 marching | mark |
| 2 | marching | march | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 entered | advcl |
| 3 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 4 distance | det |
| 4 | distance | distance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 marching | obj |
| 5 | through | through | ADP | _ | 7 country | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 country | det |
| 7 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 marching | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 marching | punct |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 entered | nsubj |
| 10 | entered | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 day | nummod |
| 12 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 entered | obl:unmarked |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 plain | det |
| 14 | vast | vast | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 plain | amod |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 beautiful | cc |
| 16 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 vast | conj |
| 17 | plain | plain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 entered | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 interspersed | punct |
| 19 | interspersed | intersperse | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 plain | acl |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 villages | case |
| 21 | villages | village | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 interspersed | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 adorned | punct |
| 23 | adorned | adorn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 villages | acl |
| 24 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 groves | case |
| 25 | groves | grove | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 adorned | obl:agent |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 gardens | cc |
| 27 | gardens | garden | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 groves | conj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 watered | punct |
| 29 | watered | water | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 groves | acl |
| 30 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 31 winding | mark |
| 31 | winding | wind | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 29 watered | advcl |
| 32 | rivers | river | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 winding | obj |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 surrounded | punct |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 surrounded | cc |
| 35 | surrounded | surround | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 entered | advcl |
| 36 | by | by | ADP | _ | 38 mountains | case |
| 37 | lofty | lofty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 mountains | amod |
| 38 | mountains | mountain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 surrounded | obl |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 entered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | march | gerund | terror not said here | some distance | the country | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent distance=Theme through country=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | enter | past | terror | a vast plain | day | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme plain=Destination | |||
| 3 | intersperse | participle | a vast plain not said here | with villages | vn amalgamate-22.2-2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Patient with village=Co-Patient | ||||
| 4 | adorn | participle | villages not said here | groves and gardens obl:agent | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | water | participle | groves and gardens not said here | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | wind | gerund | rivers | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent river=Theme | |||||
| 7 | surround | participle | terror not said here | by lofty mountains | vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: 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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