Legends of the conquest of Spain, Of the Loves of Roderick and the Princess Elyata., sentence 10
As it drew near, the rich carving and gilding with which it was decorated, its silken bandaroles, and banks of crimson oars, showed it to be no warlike vessel, but a sumptuous galleot, destined for state and ceremony.
Who acts: bark, rich carving, banks · What happens: draw, gild, decorate, show, be, destine · To what, where: rich carving, bark, warlike vessel, sumptuous galleot · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Of the Loves of Roderick and the Princess Elyata.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bark, rich carving, banks), 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 3 drew | mark |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 drew | nsubj |
| 3 | drew | draw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | near | near | ADV | _ | 3 drew | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 drew | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 carving | det |
| 7 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 carving | amod |
| 8 | carving | carving | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 drew | obj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 gilding | cc |
| 10 | gilding | gild | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 carving | acl |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 which | case |
| 12 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 decorated | obl |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 decorated | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 decorated | aux:pass |
| 15 | decorated | decorate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 gilding | parataxis |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 bandaroles | punct |
| 17 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 bandaroles | nmod:poss |
| 18 | silken | silken | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 bandaroles | amod |
| 19 | bandaroles | bandarole | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 decorated | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 showed | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 showed | cc |
| 22 | banks | bank | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 showed | nsubj |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 oars | case |
| 24 | crimson | crimson | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 oars | compound |
| 25 | oars | oar | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 banks | nmod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 banks | punct |
| 27 | showed | show | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 decorated | conj |
| 28 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 showed | obj |
| 29 | to | to | PART | _ | 33 vessel | mark |
| 30 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 33 vessel | cop |
| 31 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 33 vessel | det |
| 32 | warlike | warlike | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 vessel | amod |
| 33 | vessel | vessel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 showed | ccomp |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 destined | punct |
| 35 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 40 destined | cc |
| 36 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 38 galleot | det |
| 37 | sumptuous | sumptuous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 galleot | amod |
| 38 | galleot | galleot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 destined | nsubj:pass |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 destined | punct |
| 40 | destined | destine | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 27 showed | conj |
| 41 | for | for | ADP | _ | 42 state | case |
| 42 | state | state | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 destined | obl |
| 43 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 ceremony | cc |
| 44 | ceremony | ceremony | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 state | conj |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 drew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | draw | past | bark | the rich carving | near property | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent carving=Theme | |||
| 2 | gild | gerund | the rich carving not said here | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | decorate | past · passive | bark | bark's silken bandaroles obl; which obl | vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with which=Theme | ||||
| 4 | show | past | banks of crimson oars | bark | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Recipient | ||||
| 5 | is a | to-infinitive | no warlike vessel | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | destine | participle · passive | a sumptuous galleot | for state and ceremony | 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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