Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter XII., sentence 11
That under Taric departed towards the north-east; beating up the country towards the source of the Tagus, traversing the chain of Iberian or Arragonian mountains, and pouring down into the plains and valleys watered by the Ebro.
Who acts: That · What happens: depart, beat up, traverse, pour down, water · To what, where: Taric, country, chain, plains
This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Chapter XII.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (That), 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 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 departed | nsubj |
| 2 | under | under | ADP | _ | 3 Taric | case |
| 3 | Taric | Taric | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 departed | obl |
| 4 | departed | depart | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 9 east | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 east | det |
| 7 | north | north | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 east | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 north | punct |
| 9 | east | east | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 departed | obl |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 beating | punct |
| 11 | beating | beat | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 departed | advcl |
| 12 | up | up | ADP | _ | 11 beating | compound:prt |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 country | det |
| 14 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 beating | obj |
| 15 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 17 source | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 source | det |
| 17 | source | source | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 beating | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 Tagus | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Tagus | det |
| 20 | Tagus | Tagus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 source | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 traversing | punct |
| 22 | traversing | traverse | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 beating | conj |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 chain | det |
| 24 | chain | chain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 traversing | obj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 mountains | case |
| 26 | Iberian | iberian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 mountains | amod |
| 27 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 28 Arragonian | cc |
| 28 | Arragonian | arragonian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 Iberian | conj |
| 29 | mountains | mountain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 chain | nmod |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 pouring | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 pouring | cc |
| 32 | pouring | pour | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 22 traversing | conj |
| 33 | down | down | ADV | _ | 32 pouring | advmod |
| 34 | into | into | ADP | _ | 36 plains | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 plains | det |
| 36 | plains | plain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 pouring | obl |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 valleys | cc |
| 38 | valleys | valley | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 plains | conj |
| 39 | watered | water | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 36 plains | acl |
| 40 | by | by | ADP | _ | 42 Ebro | case |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 Ebro | det |
| 42 | Ebro | ebro | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 watered | obl |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 departed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | depart | past | That | Taric | towards the north east | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme towards east=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | beat up | gerund | That not said here | the country | towards the source of the Tagus | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent country=Patient towards source=Recipient | |||
| 3 | traverse | gerund | That not said here | the chain of Iberian mountains | vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme chain=Co-Theme | ||||
| 4 | pour down | gerund | That not said here | the plains and valleys | down property | vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into plain=Location | |||
| 5 | water | participle | the plains and valleys not said here | by the Ebro | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent |
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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