Legends of the conquest of Spain, Expedition of Magued Against Cordova.—defence of the Patriot Pelistes., sentence 36
The gates were massive, and secured with bolts and bars; the walls were of great thickness; the windows high and grated; there was a great tank or cistern of water, and the friars, who had fled from the city, had left behind a good supply of provisions.
Who acts: gates, walls, windows, great tank, friars · What happens: be, secure, grate, flee, leave · To what, where: city, good supply
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 (gates, walls, windows, great tank), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 gates | det |
| 2 | gates | gate | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 massive | nsubj |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 massive | cop |
| 4 | massive | massive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 secured | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 secured | cc |
| 7 | secured | secure | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 massive | conj |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 bolts | case |
| 9 | bolts | bolt | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 secured | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 bars | cc |
| 11 | bars | bar | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 bolts | conj |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 thickness | punct |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 walls | det |
| 14 | walls | wall | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 thickness | nsubj |
| 15 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 thickness | cop |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 thickness | case |
| 17 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 thickness | amod |
| 18 | thickness | thickness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 massive | conj |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 high | punct |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 windows | det |
| 21 | windows | window | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 high | nsubj |
| 22 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 massive | conj |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 grated | cc |
| 24 | grated | grate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 high | conj |
| 25 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 27 was | punct |
| 26 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 27 was | expl |
| 27 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 massive | parataxis |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 tank | det |
| 29 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 tank | amod |
| 30 | tank | tank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 was | nsubj |
| 31 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 32 cistern | cc |
| 32 | cistern | cistern | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 tank | conj |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 water | case |
| 34 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 cistern | nmod |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 48 left | punct |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 48 left | cc |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 friars | det |
| 38 | friars | friar | NOUN | Number=Plur | 48 left | nsubj |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 fled | punct |
| 40 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 42 fled | nsubj |
| 41 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 42 fled | aux |
| 42 | fled | flee | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 38 friars | acl:relcl |
| 43 | from | from | ADP | _ | 45 city | case |
| 44 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 city | det |
| 45 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 fled | obl |
| 46 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 friars | punct |
| 47 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 48 left | aux |
| 48 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 massive | advcl |
| 49 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 52 supply | case |
| 50 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 52 supply | det |
| 51 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 52 supply | amod |
| 52 | supply | supply | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 left | obl |
| 53 | of | of | ADP | _ | 54 provisions | case |
| 54 | provisions | provision | NOUN | Number=Plur | 52 supply | nmod |
| 55 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 massive | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the gates | massive property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | secure | participle | the gates not said here | with bolts and bars | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent with bolt=Co-Patient | ||||
| 3 | is | past | the walls | of great thickness | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | be | the windows | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | grate | participle | the windows not said here | vn appeal-31.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 6 | be | past | a great tank or cistern of water | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 7 | flee | past · perfect | the friars | the city | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from city=Initial_Location | ||||
| 8 | leave | past · perfect | the friars | a good supply of provisions | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent behind supply=Location |
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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