Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter XIV., sentence 22
It was I who gained them, and who captured the cities in which they were found.
Who acts: TABLE · What happens: be, capture, find · To what, where: cities, trophies
This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Chapter XIV.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (TABLE), 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 | 5 gained | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 gained | cop |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 gained | nsubj |
| 4 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 gained | nsubj |
| 5 | gained | gain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 gained | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 captured | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 captured | cc |
| 9 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 captured | nsubj |
| 10 | captured | capture | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 gained | conj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 cities | det |
| 12 | cities | city | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 captured | obj |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 which | case |
| 14 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 found | obl |
| 15 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 found | nsubj |
| 16 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 found | aux:pass |
| 17 | found | find | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 cities | acl:relcl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 gained | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | TABLE | I nsubj; who nsubj; trophies = trophy obj; gain property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | capture | past | the cities | who nsubj | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent city=Theme | ||||
| 3 | find | past · passive | trophies = trophy | the cities | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic |
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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