Legends of the conquest of Spain, Legend of Count Julian and His Family., sentence 1
In the preceding legends is darkly shadowed out a true story of the woes of Spain.
What happens: precede, shadow out · To what, where: true story, preceding legends
This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Legend of Count Julian and His Family.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 legends | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 legends | det |
| 3 | preceding | precede | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 legends | amod |
| 4 | legends | legend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 shadowed | obl |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 shadowed | aux:pass |
| 6 | darkly | darkly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 shadowed | amod |
| 7 | shadowed | shadow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | out | out | ADP | _ | 7 shadowed | compound:prt |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 story | det |
| 10 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 story | amod |
| 11 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 shadowed | obj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 woes | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 woes | det |
| 14 | woes | woe | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 story | nmod |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 Spain | case |
| 16 | Spain | Spain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 woes | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 shadowed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | precede | gerund | vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | shadow out | present · passive | a true story of the woes of Spain | the preceding legends | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: story=Theme in legend=Trajectory |
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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