Legends of the conquest of Spain, Expedition of Magued Against Cordova.—defence of the Patriot Pelistes., sentence 21
But there is one place where the city may be secretly entered.
Who acts: one place · What happens: be, enter · To what, where: city
This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Expedition of Magued Against Cordova.—defence of the Patriot Pelistes.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (one place), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 3 is | cc |
| 2 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 is | expl |
| 3 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 place | nummod |
| 5 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 is | nsubj |
| 6 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 12 entered | advmod |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 city | det |
| 8 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 entered | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 entered | aux |
| 10 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 12 entered | aux:pass |
| 11 | secretly | secretly | ADV | _ | 12 entered | advmod |
| 12 | entered | enter | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 place | acl:relcl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 is | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | present | one place | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | enter | may · passive | the city | secretly property | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Destination |
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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