Legends of the conquest of Spain, Legend of Count Julian and His Family., sentence 37
The city, adds the ancient chronicler, received the name thus given it, though afterwards softened to Malaga, which it still retains, in memory of the tragical end of Florinda.
Who acts: city, name · What happens: add, receive, give, soften, retain · To what, where: ancient chronicler, name, city, Malaga, memory
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 (city, name), 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 | 2 city | det |
| 2 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 adds | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 city | punct |
| 4 | adds | add | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 chronicler | det |
| 6 | ancient | ancient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 chronicler | amod |
| 7 | chronicler | chronicler | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 adds | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 received | punct |
| 9 | received | receive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 adds | parataxis |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 name | det |
| 11 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 received | obj |
| 12 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 13 given | advmod |
| 13 | given | give | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 name | acl |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 given | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 softened | punct |
| 16 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 18 softened | mark |
| 17 | afterwards | afterwards | ADV | _ | 18 softened | advmod |
| 18 | softened | soften | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 received | conj |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 Malaga | case |
| 20 | Malaga | Malaga | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 softened | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 retains | punct |
| 22 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 retains | obj |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 retains | nsubj |
| 24 | still | still | ADV | _ | 25 retains | advmod |
| 25 | retains | retain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 Malaga | acl:relcl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 memory | punct |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 memory | case |
| 28 | memory | memory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 retains | obl |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 end | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 end | det |
| 31 | tragical | tragical | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 end | amod |
| 32 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 memory | nmod |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 Florinda | case |
| 34 | Florinda | Florinda | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 end | nmod |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 adds | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | add speech: assert | present | the city | the ancient chronicler | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chronicler=Patient | ||||
| 2 | receive | past | the name | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent name=Theme | |||||
| 3 | give | participle | the name not said here | city | thus property | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | |||
| 4 | soften | participle | Malaga | afterwards property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 5 | retain | present | city | Malaga | memory of the tragical end of Florinda | still | tree rules |
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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