Legends of the conquest of Spain, Capture of Granada.—subjugation of the Alpuxarra Mountains., sentence 5
It was the famous vega, or plain of Granada, destined to be for ages the favourite abode of the Moslems.
Who acts: plain · What happens: be, destine · To what, where: famous vega, favourite abode
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 (plain), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 vega | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 vega | cop |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 vega | det |
| 4 | famous | famous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 vega | amod |
| 5 | vega | vega | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 plain | punct |
| 7 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 8 plain | cc |
| 8 | plain | plain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 vega | appos |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 Granada | case |
| 10 | Granada | Granada | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 plain | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 destined | punct |
| 12 | destined | destine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 vega | conj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 abode | mark |
| 14 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 19 abode | cop |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 ages | case |
| 16 | ages | age | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 abode | obl |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 abode | det |
| 18 | favourite | favourite | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 abode | amod |
| 19 | abode | abode | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 destined | ccomp |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 Moslems | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 Moslems | det |
| 22 | Moslems | Moslem | PROPN | Number=Plur | 19 abode | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 vega | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | plain | the famous vega | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | destine | past | plain not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | is a | to-infinitive | plain not said here | the favourite abode | for ages | of the Moslems | 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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