Legends of the conquest of Spain, Expedition of Magued Against Cordova.—defence of the Patriot Pelistes., sentence 22
In a part of the wall, not far from the bridge, the battlements are broken, and there is a breach at some height from the ground.
Who acts: breach · What happens: break, be · To what, where: battlements, part
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 (breach), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 part | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 part | det |
| 3 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 broken | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 wall | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 wall | det |
| 6 | wall | wall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 part | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 bridge | punct |
| 8 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 9 far | advmod |
| 9 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 12 bridge | advmod |
| 10 | from | from | ADP | _ | 12 bridge | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 bridge | det |
| 12 | bridge | bridge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 part | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 part | punct |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 battlements | det |
| 15 | battlements | battlement | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 broken | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 broken | aux:pass |
| 17 | broken | break | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 is | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 is | cc |
| 20 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 21 is | expl |
| 21 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 broken | parataxis |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 breach | det |
| 23 | breach | breach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 is | nsubj |
| 24 | at | at | ADP | _ | 26 height | case |
| 25 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 26 height | det |
| 26 | height | height | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 breach | nmod |
| 27 | from | from | ADP | _ | 29 ground | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 ground | det |
| 29 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 height | nmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 broken | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | break | present · passive | the battlements | a part of the wall and the bridge | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 2 | be | present | a breach at some height from the ground | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: 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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