Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter VI., sentence 34
Immense spoil was found by Taric in the alcazar, or royal castle, situated on a rocky eminence, in the highest part of the city.
Who acts: Taric · What happens: find, situate · To what, where: Immense spoil, alcazar, royal castle, rocky eminence
This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Chapter VI.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Taric), 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 | Immense | immense | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 spoil | amod |
| 2 | spoil | spoil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 found | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 found | aux:pass |
| 4 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 6 Taric | case |
| 6 | Taric | Taric | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 found | obl |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 alcazar | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 alcazar | det |
| 9 | alcazar | alcazar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 found | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 castle | punct |
| 11 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 13 castle | cc |
| 12 | royal | royal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 castle | amod |
| 13 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 alcazar | appos |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 situated | punct |
| 15 | situated | situate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 castle | acl |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 eminence | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 eminence | det |
| 18 | rocky | rocky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 eminence | amod |
| 19 | eminence | eminence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 situated | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 part | punct |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 part | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 part | det |
| 23 | highest | high | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 24 part | amod |
| 24 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 situated | obl |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 city | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 city | det |
| 27 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 part | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | past · passive | Taric | Immense spoil | the alcazar | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Topic | |||
| 2 | situate | participle | royal castle not said here | a rocky eminence | in the highest part of the city | vn put-9.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on eminence=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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