Legends of the conquest of Spain, The Rise of Don Roderick.—his Government., sentence 10
The ancient city of Toledo, the royal residence of the Gothic kings, was the scene of high festivity and solemn ceremonial on the coronation of the victor.
Who acts: ancient city · What happens: be, coronate · To what, where: scene, victor
This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, The Rise of Don Roderick.—his Government.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ancient city), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 city | det |
| 2 | ancient | ancient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 city | amod |
| 3 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 scene | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 Toledo | case |
| 5 | Toledo | Toledo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 city | nmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 residence | punct |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 residence | det |
| 8 | royal | royal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 residence | amod |
| 9 | residence | residence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 Toledo | appos |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 kings | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 kings | det |
| 12 | Gothic | gothic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 kings | amod |
| 13 | kings | king | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 residence | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 city | punct |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 scene | cop |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 scene | det |
| 17 | scene | scene | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 festivity | case |
| 19 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 festivity | amod |
| 20 | festivity | festivity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 scene | nmod |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 ceremonial | cc |
| 22 | solemn | solemn | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 ceremonial | amod |
| 23 | ceremonial | ceremonial | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 scene | conj |
| 24 | on | on | ADP | _ | 26 coronation | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 coronation | det |
| 26 | coronation | coronation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 ceremonial | nmod |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 victor | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 victor | det |
| 29 | victor | victor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 coronation | nmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 scene | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the ancient city of Toledo | the scene and solemn ceremonial on the coronation of the victor | of high festivity; solemn ceremonial on the coronation of the victor conj | tree rules | |||
| 2 | coronate | the victor | nom coronation «event 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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