Legends of the conquest of Spain, Expedition of Magued Against Cordova.—defence of the Patriot Pelistes., sentence 23
Hard by stands a fig tree, by the aid of which the wall may easily be scaled.”
What happens: stand, scale · To what, where: fig tree, wall
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: 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 | Hard | hard | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 stands | advmod |
| 2 | by | by | ADP | _ | 3 stands | case |
| 3 | stands | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 tree | det |
| 5 | fig | fig | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 tree | compound |
| 6 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 stands | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 aid | punct |
| 8 | by | by | ADP | _ | 10 aid | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 aid | det |
| 10 | aid | aid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 stands | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 which | case |
| 12 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 scaled | obl |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 wall | det |
| 14 | wall | wall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 scaled | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 scaled | aux |
| 16 | easily | easily | ADV | _ | 18 scaled | advmod |
| 17 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 18 scaled | aux:pass |
| 18 | scaled | scale | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 aid | acl:relcl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 stands | punct |
| 20 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 stands | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | present | a fig tree | by the aid; hard property | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent tree=Theme by aid=Destination | ||||
| 2 | scale | may · passive | the wall | of the aid; easily property | vn pit-10.7 «NP V NP»: subject=Source |
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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