Legends of the conquest of Spain, Legend of Count Julian and His Family., sentence 73
Now so it happened, that the Countess Frandina was seated late at night in her chamber in the city of Ceuta, which stands on a lofty rock, overlooking the sea.
Who acts: it, city · What happens: happen, seat, stand, overlook · To what, where: Countess Frandina, chamber, lofty rock, sea
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 (it, city), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 happened | advmod |
| 2 | so | so | ADV | _ | 4 happened | advmod |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 happened | nsubj |
| 4 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 seated | punct |
| 6 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 seated | mark |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Frandina | det |
| 8 | Countess | Countess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Frandina | compound |
| 9 | Frandina | Frandina | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 seated | nsubj:pass |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 seated | aux:pass |
| 11 | seated | seat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 happened | advcl |
| 12 | late | late | ADV | Degree=Pos | 11 seated | advmod |
| 13 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 night | case |
| 14 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 seated | obl |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 chamber | case |
| 16 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 chamber | nmod:poss |
| 17 | chamber | chamber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 seated | obl |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 city | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 city | det |
| 20 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 chamber | nmod |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 Ceuta | case |
| 22 | Ceuta | Ceuta | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 city | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 stands | punct |
| 24 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 stands | nsubj |
| 25 | stands | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 city | acl:relcl |
| 26 | on | on | ADP | _ | 29 rock | case |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 rock | det |
| 28 | lofty | lofty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 rock | amod |
| 29 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 stands | obl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 overlooking | punct |
| 31 | overlooking | overlook | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 25 stands | advcl |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 sea | det |
| 33 | sea | sea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 overlooking | obj |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 happened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | past | it | now | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | seat | past · passive | the Countess Frandina | Frandina's chamber in the city of Ceuta | night | late property | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Value in chamber=Location | ||
| 3 | stand | present | the city of Ceuta | a lofty rock | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on rock=Location | ||||
| 4 | overlook | gerund | the city of Ceuta not said here | the sea | vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sea=Theme |
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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