Legends of the conquest of Spain, Muza Marches Against the City of Seville., sentence 2
On the borders of the river stood the ancient city of Seville, surrounded by Roman walls, and defended by its golden tower.
What happens: stand, surround, defend · To what, where: ancient city, borders
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: 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 3 borders | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 borders | det |
| 3 | borders | border | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 stood | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 river | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 river | det |
| 6 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 stood | obl |
| 7 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 city | det |
| 9 | ancient | ancient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 city | amod |
| 10 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 stood | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 Seville | case |
| 12 | Seville | Seville | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 city | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 surrounded | punct |
| 14 | surrounded | surround | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 city | acl |
| 15 | by | by | ADP | _ | 17 walls | case |
| 16 | Roman | roman | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 walls | amod |
| 17 | walls | wall | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 surrounded | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 defended | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 defended | cc |
| 20 | defended | defend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 stood | conj |
| 21 | by | by | ADP | _ | 24 tower | case |
| 22 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 tower | nmod:poss |
| 23 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 tower | amod |
| 24 | tower | tower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 defended | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | the ancient city of Seville | the borders | of the river | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent city=Theme on border=Destination | |||
| 2 | surround | participle | the ancient city of Seville not said here | by Roman walls | vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | defend | participle | by city's golden tower | vn defend-72.3 «NP V S_ING»: agent=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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