Legends of the conquest of Spain, Muza Arrives At Toledo.—interview Between Him and Taric., sentence 6
Their meeting took place on the banks of the rapid river Tietar, which rises in the mountains of Placencia, and throws itself into the Tagus.
Who acts: meeting, rapid river · What happens: take, rise, throw · To what, where: place, banks, mountains, Tagus
This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Muza Arrives At Toledo.—interview Between Him and Taric.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (meeting, rapid river), 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 | Their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 meeting | nmod:poss |
| 2 | meeting | meeting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | nsubj |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obj |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 banks | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 banks | det |
| 7 | banks | bank | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 took | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 river | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 river | det |
| 10 | rapid | rapid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 river | amod |
| 11 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 banks | nmod |
| 12 | Tietar | Tietar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 river | appos |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 rises | punct |
| 14 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 rises | nsubj |
| 15 | rises | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 river | conj |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 mountains | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 mountains | det |
| 18 | mountains | mountain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 rises | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 Placencia | case |
| 20 | Placencia | Placencia | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 mountains | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 throws | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 throws | cc |
| 23 | throws | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | parataxis |
| 24 | itself | itself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 23 throws | obj |
| 25 | into | into | ADP | _ | 27 Tagus | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 Tagus | det |
| 27 | Tagus | Tagus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 throws | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | mules's meeting | place | the banks of the rapid river | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent place=Theme on bank=Destination | |||
| 2 | rise | present | the rapid river | the mountains of Placencia | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in mountain=Location | ||||
| 3 | throw | present | place | the Tagus | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent itself=Theme into tagus=Destination |
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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