Legends of the conquest of Spain, Of the Loves of Roderick and the Princess Elyata., sentence 11

It bore the marks of the tempest: the masts were broken, the oars shattered, and fragments of snowy sails and silken awnings were fluttering in the blast.

Who acts: galleot, fragments · What happens: bear, break, shatter, flutter, mark · To what, where: marks, masts, oars, blast, tempest

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 (galleot, fragments), 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	2 bore	nsubj
2	bore	bear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 marks	det
4	marks	mark	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 bore	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	7 tempest	case
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 tempest	det
7	tempest	tempest	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 marks	nmod
8	:	:	PUNCT	_	12 broken	punct
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 masts	det
10	masts	mast	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 broken	nsubj:pass
11	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 broken	aux:pass
12	broken	break	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	2 bore	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 oars	punct
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 oars	det
15	oars	oar	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 broken	obl
16	shattered	shatter	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 oars	acl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 fluttering	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 fluttering	cc
19	fragments	fragment	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 fluttering	nsubj
20	of	of	ADP	_	22 sails	case
21	snowy	snowy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 sails	amod
22	sails	sail	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 fragments	nmod
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 awnings	cc
24	silken	silken	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 awnings	amod
25	awnings	awning	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 sails	conj
26	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	27 fluttering	aux
27	fluttering	flutter	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 broken	advcl
28	in	in	ADP	_	30 blast	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 blast	det
30	blast	blast	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 fluttering	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 bore	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	bear	past	galleot	the marks of the tempest			vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mark=Patient
2	break	past · passive		the masts		the oars obl	vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
3	shatter	participle		the oars not said here			vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient
4	flutter	past · progressive	fragments of snowy sails and silken awnings		the blast		vn modes_of_being_with_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in blast=Location
5	mark			the tempest			nom mark «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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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🌲 Legends of the conquest of Spain, Of the Loves of Roderick and the Princess Elyata., sentence 11

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Pragmatics

Legends of the conquest of Spain, Of the Loves of Roderick and the Princess Elyata., sentence 11