Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter VI., sentence 45
Having made these and other conquests of less importance, and having collected great quantities of gold and silver, and rich stuffs and precious stones, Taric returned with his booty to the royal city of Toledo.
Who acts: rich stuffs · What happens: make, collect, return · To what, where: these, great quantities
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 (rich stuffs), 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 | Having | have | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 made | aux |
| 2 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 3 | these | this | PRON | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 2 made | obj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 conquests | cc |
| 5 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 conquests | amod |
| 6 | conquests | conquest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 made | conj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 importance | case |
| 8 | less | less | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 9 importance | amod |
| 9 | importance | importance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 conquests | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 collected | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 collected | cc |
| 12 | having | have | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 collected | aux |
| 13 | collected | collect | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 2 made | conj |
| 14 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 quantities | amod |
| 15 | quantities | quantity | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 collected | obj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 gold | case |
| 17 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 quantities | nmod |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 silver | cc |
| 19 | silver | silver | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 gold | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 returned | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 returned | cc |
| 22 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 stuffs | amod |
| 23 | stuffs | stuff | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 returned | nsubj |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 stones | cc |
| 25 | precious | precious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 stones | amod |
| 26 | stones | stone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 stuffs | conj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 Taric | punct |
| 28 | Taric | Taric | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 stuffs | nmod |
| 29 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 made | conj |
| 30 | with | with | ADP | _ | 32 booty | case |
| 31 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 booty | nmod:poss |
| 32 | booty | booty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 returned | obl |
| 33 | to | to | ADP | _ | 36 city | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 city | det |
| 35 | royal | royal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 city | amod |
| 36 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 booty | nmod |
| 37 | of | of | ADP | _ | 38 Toledo | case |
| 38 | Toledo | Toledo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 city | nmod |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | gerund · perfect | these | other conquests of less importance conj | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset this=Product | ||||
| 2 | collect | gerund · perfect | great quantities of gold and silver | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent quantity=Theme | |||||
| 3 | return | past | rich stuffs Taric and precious stones | with Taric's booty to the royal city of Toledo | vn escape-51.1-1 «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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