Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter XIII., sentence 15
He returned to Cordova, collecting by the way all the treasures he had deposited in various places.
Who acts: man · What happens: return, collect, deposit · To what, where: Cordova, treasures, various places
This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Chapter XIII.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man), 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 returned | nsubj |
| 2 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 4 Cordova | case |
| 4 | Cordova | Cordova | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 returned | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 collecting | punct |
| 6 | collecting | collect | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 returned | advcl |
| 7 | by | by | ADP | _ | 9 way | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 way | det |
| 9 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 collecting | obl |
| 10 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 treasures | det:predet |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 treasures | det |
| 12 | treasures | treasure | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 collecting | obl |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 deposited | nsubj |
| 14 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 deposited | aux |
| 15 | deposited | deposit | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 12 treasures | acl:relcl |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 places | case |
| 17 | various | various | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 places | amod |
| 18 | places | place | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 deposited | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 returned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | return | past | man | Cordova | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to cordova=Result | ||||
| 2 | collect | gerund | man not said here | all treasures | by the way | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||
| 3 | deposit | past · perfect | man | all treasures not said here | various places | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent treasure=Theme in place=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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