Legends of the conquest of Spain, Muza Besieges the City of Merida., sentence 4
One city alone prepared for vigorous defence, the ancient Merida, a place of great extent, uncounted riches, and prodigious strength.
This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Muza Besieges the City of Merida.. 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 city | nummod |
| 2 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 prepared | nsubj |
| 3 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 4 prepared | advmod |
| 4 | prepared | prepared | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 defence | case |
| 6 | vigorous | vigorous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 defence | amod |
| 7 | defence | defence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 prepared | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 Merida | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Merida | det |
| 10 | ancient | ancient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 Merida | amod |
| 11 | Merida | Merida | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 defence | appos |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 place | punct |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 place | det |
| 14 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 Merida | appos |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 extent | case |
| 16 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 extent | amod |
| 17 | extent | extent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 place | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 riches | punct |
| 19 | uncounted | uncounted | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 riches | amod |
| 20 | riches | rich | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 defence | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 strength | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 strength | cc |
| 23 | prodigious | prodigious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 strength | amod |
| 24 | strength | strength | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 prepared | conj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 prepared | punct |
Pragmatics
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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