Legends of the conquest of Spain, Expedition of Abdalasis Against Seville and the “land of Tadmir.”, sentence 61
One day’s existence in a hovel is worth an age of interment in a marble sepulchre.
Who acts: existence, One day · What happens: be, exist · To what, where: hovel
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 (existence, One day), 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 day | nummod |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 existence | nmod:poss |
| 3 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 2 day | case |
| 4 | existence | existence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 worth | nsubj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 hovel | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 hovel | det |
| 7 | hovel | hovel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 existence | nmod |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 worth | cop |
| 9 | worth | worth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 10 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 age | det |
| 11 | age | age | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 worth | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 interment | case |
| 13 | interment | interment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 age | nmod |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 sepulchre | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 sepulchre | det |
| 16 | marble | marble | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 sepulchre | amod |
| 17 | sepulchre | sepulchre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 interment | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 worth | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | One day's existence in a hovel | a age of interment in a marble sepulchre | worth property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | exist | One day | a hovel | nom existence «state intransitive»: poss=agent in=place |
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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