Legends of the conquest of Spain, Expedition of Abdalasis Against Seville and the “land of Tadmir.”, sentence 23
When he came in sight of the fair city of Seville, seated like a queen in the midst of its golden plain, with the Guadalquivir flowing beneath its walls, he gazed upon it with the admiration of a lover, and lamented in his soul that he had to visit it as an avenger.
Who acts: Oppas, Guadalquivir · What happens: come, seat, flow, gaze, lament, have · To what, where: sight, fair city, walls, soul, Guadalquivir, lover
This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Expedition of Abdalasis Against Seville and the “land of Tadmir.”. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Oppas, Guadalquivir), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 came | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 came | nsubj |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 gazed | advcl |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 sight | case |
| 5 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 came | obl |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 city | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 city | det |
| 8 | fair | fair | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 city | amod |
| 9 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sight | nmod |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 Seville | case |
| 11 | Seville | Seville | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 city | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 seated | punct |
| 13 | seated | seat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 city | acl:relcl |
| 14 | like | like | ADP | _ | 16 queen | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 queen | det |
| 16 | queen | queen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 seated | obl |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 midst | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 midst | det |
| 19 | midst | midst | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 queen | nmod |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 plain | case |
| 21 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 plain | nmod:poss |
| 22 | golden | golden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 plain | amod |
| 23 | plain | plain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 midst | nmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 flowing | punct |
| 25 | with | with | SCONJ | _ | 28 flowing | mark |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 Guadalquivir | det |
| 27 | Guadalquivir | Guadalquivir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 flowing | nsubj |
| 28 | flowing | flow | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 came | advcl |
| 29 | beneath | beneath | ADP | _ | 31 walls | case |
| 30 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 walls | nmod:poss |
| 31 | walls | wall | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 flowing | obl |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
| 33 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 gazed | nsubj |
| 34 | gazed | gaze | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 35 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 36 it | case |
| 36 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 gazed | obl |
| 37 | with | with | ADP | _ | 39 admiration | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 admiration | det |
| 39 | admiration | admiration | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 gazed | obl |
| 40 | of | of | ADP | _ | 42 lover | case |
| 41 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 42 lover | det |
| 42 | lover | lover | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 admiration | nmod |
| 43 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 lamented | punct |
| 44 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 45 lamented | cc |
| 45 | lamented | lament | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 34 gazed | conj |
| 46 | in | in | ADP | _ | 48 soul | case |
| 47 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 48 soul | nmod:poss |
| 48 | soul | soul | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 lamented | obl |
| 49 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 51 had | mark |
| 50 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 51 had | nsubj |
| 51 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 45 lamented | advcl |
| 52 | to | to | PART | _ | 53 visit | mark |
| 53 | visit | visit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 51 had | xcomp |
| 54 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 53 visit | obj |
| 55 | as | as | ADP | _ | 57 avenger | case |
| 56 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 57 avenger | det |
| 57 | avenger | avenger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 53 visit | obl |
| 58 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 34 gazed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | Oppas | sight of the fair city of Seville | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in sight=Location | ||||
| 2 | seat | participle | the fair city of Seville not said here | like a queen in the midst of midst's golden plain | vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP»: agent=Location | ||||
| 3 | flow | gerund | the Guadalquivir | Guadalquivir's walls | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme beneath wall=Location | ||||
| 4 | gaze | past | Oppas | upon Guadalquivir; with the admiration of a lover | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent upon it=Theme | ||||
| 5 | lament | participle | Oppas not said here | Oppas's soul | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 6 | have | past | Oppas | tree rules | |||||
| 7 | visit | to-infinitive | Oppas not said here | Guadalquivir | as a avenger | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Co-Agent | |||
| 8 | sight | the fair city of Seville | nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 9 | admire | a lover | nom admiration «feeling 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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