Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter XII., sentence 12
It was wonderful to see, in so brief a space of time, such a vast and difficult country penetrated and subdued; and the invading army, like an inundating flood, pouring its streams into the most remote recesses.
Who acts: chain · What happens: be, see, brief, penetrate, subdue, invade · To what, where: space, difficult country, streams, remote recesses
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 (chain), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 wonderful | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 wonderful | cop |
| 3 | wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 see | mark |
| 5 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 wonderful | advcl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 brief | punct |
| 7 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 9 brief | mark |
| 8 | so | so | ADV | _ | 9 brief | advmod |
| 9 | brief | brief | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 see | conj |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 space | det |
| 11 | space | space | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 brief | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 time | case |
| 13 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 space | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 vast | punct |
| 15 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 17 vast | det:predet |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 vast | det |
| 17 | vast | vast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 space | conj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 country | cc |
| 19 | difficult | difficult | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 country | amod |
| 20 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 vast | conj |
| 21 | penetrated | penetrate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 country | acl |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 subdued | cc |
| 23 | subdued | subdue | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 penetrated | conj |
| 24 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 28 army | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 army | cc |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 army | det |
| 27 | invading | invade | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 28 army | amod |
| 28 | army | army | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 wonderful | parataxis |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 flood | punct |
| 30 | like | like | ADP | _ | 33 flood | case |
| 31 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 flood | det |
| 32 | inundating | inundate | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 33 flood | amod |
| 33 | flood | flood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 army | conj |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 pouring | punct |
| 35 | pouring | pour | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 28 army | advcl |
| 36 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 streams | nmod:poss |
| 37 | streams | stream | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 pouring | obj |
| 38 | into | into | ADP | _ | 42 recesses | case |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 recesses | det |
| 40 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 41 remote | advmod |
| 41 | remote | remote | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 recesses | amod |
| 42 | recesses | recess | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 pouring | obl |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 wonderful | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | chain | the invading army and a inundating flood parataxis; wonderful property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | see | to-infinitive | chain not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | brief speech: other | infinitive | chain not said here | a space of time and such vast and difficult country | vn advise-37.9 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent space=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | penetrate | participle | difficult country not said here | vn poke-19 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | subdue | participle | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 6 | invade | gerund | tree rules | ||||||
| 7 | inundate | gerund | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 8 | pour | gerund | chain not said here | chain's streams | the remote recesses | vn pour-9.5 «NP V NP PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent stream=Theme into recess=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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