Legends of the conquest of Spain, Expedition of Abdalasis Against Seville and the “land of Tadmir.”, sentence 42
“What glory,” said they, “is to be gained by destroying an enemy in this way, from the covert of rocks and thickets?”
Who acts: glory · What happens: glory, say, gain, destroy · To what, where: enemy, way · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (glory), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 glory | punct |
| 2 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 3 glory | nsubj |
| 3 | glory | glory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 said | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 glory | punct |
| 5 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 glory | punct |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 said | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 gained | punct |
| 9 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 gained | punct |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 gained | aux:pass |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 gained | mark |
| 12 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 13 gained | aux:pass |
| 13 | gained | gain | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 said | parataxis |
| 14 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 15 destroying | mark |
| 15 | destroying | destroy | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 gained | advcl |
| 16 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 enemy | det |
| 17 | enemy | enemy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 destroying | obj |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 way | case |
| 19 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 20 way | det |
| 20 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 destroying | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 covert | punct |
| 22 | from | from | ADP | _ | 24 covert | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 covert | det |
| 24 | covert | covert | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 said | ccomp |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 rocks | case |
| 26 | rocks | rock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 covert | nmod |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 thickets | cc |
| 28 | thickets | thicket | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 rocks | conj |
| 29 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 24 covert | punct |
| 30 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 24 covert | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | glory in a quote | What nsubj | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | say speech: ask | past | glory | prowess nsubj; the covert of rocks and thickets ccomp | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | gain in a quote | present · passive | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V» | ||||||
| 4 | destroy in a quote | gerund | a enemy | this way | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent enemy=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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