Legends of the conquest of Spain, Fate of Abdalasis and Exilona.—death of Muza., sentence 66
The Spanish accounts, on the contrary, are full of the marvellous; for there were no greater romancers than the monkish chroniclers.
Who acts: Spanish accounts, greater romancers · What happens: be
This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Fate of Abdalasis and Exilona.—death of Muza.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Spanish accounts, greater romancers), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 accounts | det |
| 2 | Spanish | Spanish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 accounts | amod |
| 3 | accounts | account | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 full | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 contrary | punct |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 contrary | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 contrary | det |
| 7 | contrary | contrary | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 accounts | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 accounts | punct |
| 9 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 full | cop |
| 10 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 marvellous | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 marvellous | det |
| 13 | marvellous | marvellous | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 full | obl |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 were | punct |
| 15 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 17 were | mark |
| 16 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 17 were | expl |
| 17 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 full | conj |
| 18 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 20 romancers | det |
| 19 | greater | great | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 20 romancers | amod |
| 20 | romancers | romancer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 were | nsubj |
| 21 | than | than | ADP | _ | 24 chroniclers | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 chroniclers | det |
| 23 | monkish | monkish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 chroniclers | amod |
| 24 | chroniclers | chronicler | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 romancers | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 full | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the Spanish accounts on the contrary | of the marvellous; full property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | past | no greater romancers than the monkish chroniclers | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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