Legends of the conquest of Spain, Legend of Count Julian and His Family., sentence 3

We have seen, in brief space of time, most of the actors in this historic drama disappearing, one by one, from the scene, and going down, conqueror and conquered, to gloomy and unhonoured graves.

Who acts: We, historic drama · What happens: see, disappear, go down, conquer · To what, where: brief space, one, scene, conqueror

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: who acts (We, historic drama), 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	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 seen	nsubj
2	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 seen	aux
3	seen	see	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 space	punct
5	in	in	ADP	_	7 space	case
6	brief	brief	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 space	amod
7	space	space	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 seen	obj
8	of	of	ADP	_	9 time	case
9	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 space	nmod
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 most	punct
11	most	most	ADJ	Degree=Sup	7 space	appos
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 actors	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 actors	det
14	actors	actor	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 most	nmod
15	in	in	ADP	_	18 drama	case
16	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	18 drama	det
17	historic	historic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 drama	amod
18	drama	drama	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 actors	nmod
19	disappearing	disappear	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	18 drama	acl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 one	punct
21	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	19 disappearing	obl
22	by	by	ADP	_	23 one	case
23	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	21 one	nmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 scene	punct
25	from	from	ADP	_	27 scene	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 scene	det
27	scene	scene	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 disappearing	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 going	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 going	cc
30	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 seen	conj
31	down	down	ADV	_	30 going	advmod
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 conqueror	punct
33	conqueror	conqueror	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 going	obl
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 conquered	cc
35	conquered	conquer	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 seen	conj
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 graves	punct
37	to	to	ADP	_	41 graves	case
38	gloomy	gloomy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	41 graves	amod
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 unhonoured	cc
40	unhonoured	unhonoured	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 gloomy	conj
41	graves	grave	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 conquered	obl
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 seen	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	see	present · perfect	We	brief space of time			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer space=Stimulus
2	disappear	gerund	this historic drama not said here	one by one	the scene		vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme from scene=Initial_Location
3	go down	gerund	We not said here	conqueror		down property	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
4	conquer	past	We not said here			to gloomy graves	vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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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🌲 Legends of the conquest of Spain, Legend of Count Julian and His Family., sentence 3

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Legends of the conquest of Spain, Legend of Count Julian and His Family., sentence 3