Legends of the conquest of Spain, Loves of Abdalasis and Exilona., sentence 2
His palace was of noble architecture, with delightful gardens extending to the banks of the Guadalquivir.
Who acts: palace, delightful gardens · What happens: be, extend · To what, where: banks
This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Loves of Abdalasis and Exilona.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (palace, delightful gardens), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 palace | nmod:poss |
| 2 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 architecture | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 architecture | cop |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 architecture | case |
| 5 | noble | noble | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 architecture | amod |
| 6 | architecture | architecture | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 gardens | punct |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 gardens | case |
| 9 | delightful | delightful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 gardens | amod |
| 10 | gardens | garden | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 architecture | parataxis |
| 11 | extending | extend | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 gardens | acl |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 banks | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 banks | det |
| 14 | banks | bank | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 extending | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 Guadalquivir | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Guadalquivir | det |
| 17 | Guadalquivir | Guadalquivir | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 banks | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 architecture | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Seville's palace | of noble architecture; delightful gardens parataxis | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | extend | gerund | delightful gardens not said here | the banks of the Guadalquivir | vn contribute-13.2-2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to bank=Recipient |
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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