Legends of the conquest of Spain, Muza Marches Against the City of Seville., sentence 1
After the capture of Carmona, Muza descended into a noble plain, covered with fields of grain, with orchards and gardens, through which glided the soft-flowing Guadalquivir.
Who acts: Muza · What happens: descend, cover, glide, flow, capture · To what, where: noble plain, flowing Guadalquivir, Carmona
This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Muza Marches Against the City of Seville.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Muza), 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 3 capture | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 capture | det |
| 3 | capture | capture | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 descended | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 Carmona | case |
| 5 | Carmona | Carmona | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 capture | nmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 capture | punct |
| 7 | Muza | Muza | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 descended | nsubj |
| 8 | descended | descend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | into | into | ADP | _ | 12 plain | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 plain | det |
| 11 | noble | noble | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 plain | amod |
| 12 | plain | plain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 descended | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 covered | punct |
| 14 | covered | cover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 plain | acl |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 fields | case |
| 16 | fields | field | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 covered | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 grain | case |
| 18 | grain | grain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 fields | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 orchards | punct |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 orchards | case |
| 21 | orchards | orchard | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 descended | obl |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 gardens | cc |
| 23 | gardens | garden | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 orchards | conj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 glided | punct |
| 25 | through | through | ADP | _ | 26 which | case |
| 26 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 27 glided | nsubj |
| 27 | glided | glide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 descended | conj |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 Guadalquivir | det |
| 29 | soft | soft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 flowing | amod |
| 30 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 29 soft | punct |
| 31 | flowing | flow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 32 Guadalquivir | amod |
| 32 | Guadalquivir | Guadalquivir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 glided | obj |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 descended | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | descend | past | Muza | a noble plain | after the capture of Carmona | with orchards and gardens | vn meander-47.7-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into plain=Location | ||
| 2 | cover | participle | a noble plain not said here | with fields of grain | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with field=Theme | ||||
| 3 | glide | past | the flowing Guadalquivir | which nsubj | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent guadalquivir=Agent | ||||
| 4 | flow | gerund | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 5 | capture | Carmona | nom capture «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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