Legends of the conquest of Spain, Fate of Abdalasis and Exilona.—death of Muza., sentence 74
It then caught fire, and was so damaged as to require to be nearly rebuilt.
Who acts: foe · What happens: catch, damage, require, rebuild · To what, where: fire
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 (foe), 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 | 3 caught | nsubj |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 caught | advmod |
| 3 | caught | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 caught | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 damaged | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 damaged | cc |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 damaged | aux:pass |
| 8 | so | so | ADV | _ | 9 damaged | advmod |
| 9 | damaged | damage | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 caught | parataxis |
| 10 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 12 require | mark |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 require | mark |
| 12 | require | require | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 damaged | xcomp |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 rebuilt | mark |
| 14 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 16 rebuilt | aux:pass |
| 15 | nearly | nearly | ADV | _ | 16 rebuilt | advmod |
| 16 | rebuilt | rebuild | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 require | advcl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 caught | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | catch | past | foe | fire | then | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fire=Theme | |||
| 2 | damage | past · passive | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | require | to-infinitive | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 4 | rebuild | to-infinitive · passive | nearly property | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP» |
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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