Legends of the conquest of Spain, Capture of Granada.—subjugation of the Alpuxarra Mountains., sentence 49
We have named the wretch who betrayed his native mountains: let us equally record the name of him whose pious patriotism saved them from desolation.
Who acts: wretch, name · What happens: name, betray, let, record, save · To what, where: We, native mountains, us, mountains, desolation, wretch
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 (wretch, name), 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 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 named | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 named | aux |
| 3 | named | name | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 wretch | det |
| 5 | wretch | wretch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 named | xcomp |
| 6 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 7 betrayed | nsubj |
| 7 | betrayed | betray | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 wretch | acl:relcl |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 mountains | nmod:poss |
| 9 | native | native | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 mountains | amod |
| 10 | mountains | mountain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 betrayed | obj |
| 11 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 12 let | punct |
| 12 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 named | parataxis |
| 13 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 let | obj |
| 14 | equally | equally | ADV | _ | 15 record | advmod |
| 15 | record | record | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 let | advcl |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 name | det |
| 17 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 saved | nsubj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 him | case |
| 19 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 name | nmod |
| 20 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 22 patriotism | nmod:poss |
| 21 | pious | pious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 patriotism | amod |
| 22 | patriotism | patriotism | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 saved | nsubj |
| 23 | saved | save | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 record | ccomp |
| 24 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 saved | obj |
| 25 | from | from | ADP | _ | 26 desolation | case |
| 26 | desolation | desolation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 saved | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 named | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | name | present · perfect · passive | We | the wretch xcomp | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | betray | past | the wretch | wretch's native mountains | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | let | infinitive | us | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Theme | |||||
| 4 | record | present | equally property | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | save | past | the name of wretch | mountains = mountain | desolation | pious patriotism nsubj | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent they=Theme from desolation=Source | ||
| 6 | name | wretch | nom name «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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