Legends of the conquest of Spain, Expedition of Magued Against Cordova.—defence of the Patriot Pelistes., sentence 8
“Your city,” said he, “is surrounded by walls and towers, and may yet check the progress of the foe.
Who acts: city, walls, foe · What happens: say, surround, check, progress · To what, where: progress · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (city, walls, foe), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
| 2 | Your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 city | nmod:poss |
| 3 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 said | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 city | punct |
| 5 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 city | punct |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 said | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 surrounded | punct |
| 9 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 surrounded | punct |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 surrounded | aux:pass |
| 11 | surrounded | surround | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 said | ccomp |
| 12 | by | by | ADP | _ | 13 walls | case |
| 13 | walls | wall | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 surrounded | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 towers | cc |
| 15 | towers | tower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 walls | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 check | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 check | cc |
| 18 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 check | aux |
| 19 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 20 check | advmod |
| 20 | check | check | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 11 surrounded | parataxis |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 progress | det |
| 22 | progress | progress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 check | obj |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 foe | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 foe | det |
| 25 | foe | foe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 progress | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Your city | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | surround in a quote | present · passive | walls and towers | vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | check in a quote | may | the progress of the foe | yet | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent progress=Theme | ||||
| 4 | progress in a quote | the foe | nom progress «act intransitive»: of=agent |
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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