Legends of the conquest of Spain, Legend of Count Julian and His Family., sentence 52
It was filled with the smoke of perfumes: squares and circles and various diagrams were described upon the floor; and the astrologer was poring over a scroll of parchment covered with cabalistic characters.
Who acts: smoke, astrologer, perfumes · What happens: fill, describe, pore, cover, smoke · To what, where: cell, squares, scroll, parchment
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 (smoke, astrologer, perfumes), 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 filled | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 filled | aux:pass |
| 3 | filled | fill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 smoke | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 smoke | det |
| 6 | smoke | smoke | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 filled | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 perfumes | case |
| 8 | perfumes | perfume | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 smoke | nmod |
| 9 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 10 squares | punct |
| 10 | squares | square | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 described | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 circles | cc |
| 12 | circles | circle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 squares | conj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 diagrams | cc |
| 14 | various | various | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 diagrams | amod |
| 15 | diagrams | diagram | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 squares | conj |
| 16 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 described | aux:pass |
| 17 | described | describe | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 smoke | acl:relcl |
| 18 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 20 floor | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 floor | det |
| 20 | floor | floor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 described | obl |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 poring | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 poring | cc |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 astrologer | det |
| 24 | astrologer | astrologer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 poring | nsubj |
| 25 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 poring | aux |
| 26 | poring | pore | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 filled | advcl |
| 27 | over | over | ADP | _ | 29 scroll | case |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 scroll | det |
| 29 | scroll | scroll | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 poring | obl |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 parchment | case |
| 31 | parchment | parchment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 scroll | nmod |
| 32 | covered | cover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 31 parchment | acl |
| 33 | with | with | ADP | _ | 35 characters | case |
| 34 | cabalistic | cabalistic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 characters | amod |
| 35 | characters | character | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 covered | obl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 filled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fill | past · passive | cell | with the smoke of perfumes | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with smoke=Instrument | ||||
| 2 | describe | past · passive | the smoke of perfumes not said here | squares and circles and various diagrams | upon the floor | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Theme | |||
| 3 | pore | past · progressive | the astrologer | a scroll of parchment | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | cover | participle | parchment not said here | with cabalistic characters | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with character=Theme | ||||
| 5 | smoke | perfumes | nom smoke «phenomenon intransitive»: of=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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