Legends of the conquest of Spain, Legend of Count Julian and His Family., sentence 95
The stanchions were rapidly consumed; and when they gave way the tower fell to the ground.
Who acts: stanchions, tower · What happens: consume, give, fall · To what, where: stanchions, way
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 (stanchions, tower), 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 stanchions | det |
| 2 | stanchions | stanchion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 consumed | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 consumed | aux:pass |
| 4 | rapidly | rapidly | ADV | _ | 5 consumed | advmod |
| 5 | consumed | consume | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 gave | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 gave | cc |
| 8 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 10 gave | advmod |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 gave | nsubj |
| 10 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 consumed | conj |
| 11 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 gave | obj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 tower | det |
| 13 | tower | tower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 fell | nsubj |
| 14 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 gave | parataxis |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 ground | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 ground | det |
| 17 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 fell | obl |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 consumed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | consume | past · passive | the stanchions | rapidly property | vn consume-66 «NP V NP»: subject=Asset | ||||
| 2 | give | past | stanchions = stanchion | way | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Theme | ||||
| 3 | fall | past | the tower | to the ground | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to ground=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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