Legends of the conquest of Spain, Of the Loves of Roderick and the Princess Elyata., sentence 3
We follow, in our legend, the details of an Arabian chronicler[5], authenticated by a Spanish poet.
Who acts: We · What happens: follow, authenticate, detail · To what, where: legend, Arabian chronicler
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 (We), 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 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 follow | nsubj |
| 2 | follow | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 legend | punct |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 legend | case |
| 5 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 legend | nmod:poss |
| 6 | legend | legend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 follow | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 details | punct |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 details | det |
| 9 | details | detail | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 legend | conj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 chronicler | case |
| 11 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 chronicler | det |
| 12 | Arabian | Arabian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 chronicler | amod |
| 13 | chronicler | chronicler | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 details | nmod |
| 14 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 15 5 | punct |
| 15 | 5 | 5 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 13 chronicler | appos |
| 16 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 15 5 | punct |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 authenticated | punct |
| 18 | authenticated | authenticate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 legend | conj |
| 19 | by | by | ADP | _ | 22 poet | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 poet | det |
| 21 | Spanish | Spanish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 poet | amod |
| 22 | poet | poet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 authenticated | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 follow | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | present | We | our legend and the details of a Arabian chronicler | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in legend=Location | ||||
| 2 | authenticate | participle | We not said here | by a Spanish poet | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | detail | a Arabian chronicler | nom detail «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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