Legends of the conquest of Spain, Legend of Count Julian and His Family., sentence 93
They then undermined it, supporting its foundations by stanchions of wood.
Who acts: soldiers · What happens: undermine, support · To what, where: tower, foundations
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 (soldiers), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 undermined | nsubj |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 undermined | advmod |
| 3 | undermined | undermine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 undermined | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 supporting | punct |
| 6 | supporting | support | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 undermined | advcl |
| 7 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 foundations | nmod:poss |
| 8 | foundations | foundation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 supporting | obj |
| 9 | by | by | ADP | _ | 10 stanchions | case |
| 10 | stanchions | stanchion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 supporting | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 wood | case |
| 12 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 stanchions | nmod |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 undermined | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | undermine | past | soldiers = soldier | tower | then | tree rules | |||
| 2 | support | gerund | soldiers = soldier not said here | tower's foundations | by stanchions of wood | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer foundation=Stimulus |
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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