Legends of the conquest of Spain, The Story of Florinda., sentence 4
It stood in the midst of a garden, adorned after the luxurious style of the East.
Who acts: palace · What happens: stand, adorn · To what, where: midst
This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, The Story of Florinda.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (palace), 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 stood | nsubj |
| 2 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 midst | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 midst | det |
| 5 | midst | midst | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 stood | obl |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 garden | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 garden | det |
| 8 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 midst | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 adorned | punct |
| 10 | adorned | adorn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 stood | conj |
| 11 | after | after | ADP | _ | 14 style | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 style | det |
| 13 | luxurious | luxurious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 style | amod |
| 14 | style | style | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 adorned | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 East | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 East | det |
| 17 | East | East | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 style | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | palace | the midst of a garden | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in midst=Location | ||||
| 2 | adorn | participle | palace not said here | after the luxurious style of the East | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=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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