Legends of the conquest of Spain, Expedition of Abdalasis Against Seville and the “land of Tadmir.”, sentence 35
At length he arrived on the confines of that beautiful region comprising lofty and precipitous mountains and rich and delicious plains, afterwards known by the name of the kingdom of Murcia.
Who acts: son, beautiful region · What happens: arrive, comprise, know, name · To what, where: length, lofty mountains, kingdom
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 (son, beautiful region), 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 2 length | case |
| 2 | length | length | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 arrived | obl |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 arrived | nsubj |
| 4 | arrived | arrive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 confines | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 confines | det |
| 7 | confines | confines | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 arrived | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 region | case |
| 9 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 region | det |
| 10 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 region | amod |
| 11 | region | region | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 confines | nmod |
| 12 | comprising | comprise | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 region | acl |
| 13 | lofty | lofty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 mountains | amod |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 precipitous | cc |
| 15 | precipitous | precipitous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 lofty | conj |
| 16 | mountains | mountain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 comprising | obj |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 plains | cc |
| 18 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 plains | amod |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 delicious | cc |
| 20 | delicious | delicious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 rich | conj |
| 21 | plains | plain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 confines | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 known | punct |
| 23 | afterwards | afterwards | ADV | _ | 24 known | advmod |
| 24 | known | know | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 arrived | conj |
| 25 | by | by | ADP | _ | 27 name | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 name | det |
| 27 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 known | obl |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 kingdom | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 kingdom | det |
| 30 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 name | nmod |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 Murcia | case |
| 32 | Murcia | Murcia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 kingdom | nmod |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 arrived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | arrive | past | son | length | on the confines of that beautiful region and rich plains | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | comprise | gerund | that beautiful region not said here | lofty mountains | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme mountain=Pivot | ||||
| 3 | know | participle | son not said here | by the name of the kingdom of Murcia; afterwards property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | name | the kingdom of Murcia | nom name «communication 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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