Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter XII., sentence 36

He overcame the cities of Barcelona, Gerona, and others that lay on the skirts of the eastern mountains: then crossing into the land of the Franks, he captured the city of Narbonne; in a temple of which he found seven equestrian images of silver, which he brought off as trophies of his victory.

Who acts: MUZA, others · What happens: overcome, lay, cross, capture, find, bring off · To what, where: cities, skirts, land, city, seven equestrian images, silver

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 (MUZA, others), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 overcame	nsubj
2	overcame	overcome	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 cities	det
4	cities	city	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 overcame	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	6 Barcelona	case
6	Barcelona	Barcelona	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 cities	nmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 Gerona	punct
8	Gerona	Gerona	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Barcelona	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 others	punct
10	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 others	cc
11	others	other	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 Barcelona	conj
12	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 lay	nsubj
13	lay	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 others	acl:relcl
14	on	on	ADP	_	16 skirts	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 skirts	det
16	skirts	skirt	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 lay	obl
17	of	of	ADP	_	20 mountains	case
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 mountains	det
19	eastern	eastern	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 mountains	amod
20	mountains	mountain	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 skirts	nmod
21	:	:	PUNCT	_	23 crossing	punct
22	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	23 crossing	advmod
23	crossing	cross	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	2 overcame	advcl
24	into	into	ADP	_	26 land	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 land	det
26	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 crossing	obl
27	of	of	ADP	_	29 Franks	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 Franks	det
29	Franks	frank	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 land	nmod
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 captured	punct
31	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 captured	nsubj
32	captured	capture	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 overcame	parataxis
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 city	det
34	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 captured	obj
35	of	of	ADP	_	36 Narbonne	case
36	Narbonne	Narbonne	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 city	nmod
37	;	;	PUNCT	_	40 temple	punct
38	in	in	ADP	_	40 temple	case
39	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	40 temple	det
40	temple	temple	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 overcame	parataxis
41	of	of	ADP	_	42 which	case
42	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	44 found	obl
43	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 found	nsubj
44	found	find	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	40 temple	acl:relcl
45	seven	seven	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	47 images	nummod
46	equestrian	equestrian	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 images	compound
47	images	image	NOUN	Number=Plur	44 found	obj
48	of	of	ADP	_	49 silver	case
49	silver	silver	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 images	nmod
50	,	,	PUNCT	_	53 brought	punct
51	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	53 brought	obj
52	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	53 brought	nsubj
53	brought	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	47 images	acl:relcl
54	off	off	ADP	_	53 brought	compound:prt
55	as	as	ADP	_	56 trophies	case
56	trophies	trophy	NOUN	Number=Plur	53 brought	obl
57	of	of	ADP	_	59 victory	case
58	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	59 victory	nmod:poss
59	victory	victory	NOUN	Number=Sing	56 trophies	nmod
60	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 overcame	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	overcome	past	MUZA	the cities of Barcelona and Gerona and others			a temple parataxis	vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot city=Theme
2	lay	present	others		the skirts of the eastern mountains			vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on skirt=Destination
3	cross	gerund	MUZA not said here		the land of the Franks	then		vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into land=Initial_Location
4	capture	past	MUZA	the city of Narbonne				vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent city=Theme
5	find	past	MUZA	seven equestrian images of silver			of a temple	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent image=Topic
6	bring off	past	MUZA	seven equestrian images of silver			as trophies of MUZA's victory	vn complete-55.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Eventuality
7	image			silver				nom image «cognition transitive»: of=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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🌲 Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter XII., sentence 36

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Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter XII., sentence 36