Legends of the conquest of Spain, The Story of Florinda., sentence 5
The air was perfumed by fragrant shrubs and flowers; the groves resounded with the song of the nightingale; while the gush of fountains and waterfalls, and the distant murmur of the Tagus, made it a delightful retreat during the sultry days of summer.
Who acts: fragrant shrubs, distant murmur, nightingale, fountains · What happens: perfume, resound, make, sing, gush, murmur · To what, where: air, groves, Tagus
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 (fragrant shrubs, distant murmur, nightingale, fountains), 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 air | det |
| 2 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 perfumed | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 perfumed | aux:pass |
| 4 | perfumed | perfume | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | by | by | ADP | _ | 7 shrubs | case |
| 6 | fragrant | fragrant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 shrubs | amod |
| 7 | shrubs | shrub | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 perfumed | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 flowers | cc |
| 9 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 shrubs | conj |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 groves | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 groves | det |
| 12 | groves | grove | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 perfumed | obl |
| 13 | resounded | resound | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 groves | acl |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 song | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 song | det |
| 16 | song | song | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 resounded | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 nightingale | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 nightingale | det |
| 19 | nightingale | nightingale | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 song | nmod |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 gush | punct |
| 21 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 23 gush | mark |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 gush | det |
| 23 | gush | gush | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 groves | conj |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 fountains | case |
| 25 | fountains | fountain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 gush | nmod |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 waterfalls | cc |
| 27 | waterfalls | waterfall | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 fountains | conj |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 made | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 made | cc |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 murmur | det |
| 31 | distant | distant | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 murmur | amod |
| 32 | murmur | murmur | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 made | nsubj |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 Tagus | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 Tagus | det |
| 35 | Tagus | Tagus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 murmur | nmod |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 murmur | punct |
| 37 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 perfumed | parataxis |
| 38 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 made | obj |
| 39 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 41 retreat | det |
| 40 | delightful | delightful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 retreat | amod |
| 41 | retreat | retreat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 made | obj |
| 42 | during | during | ADP | _ | 45 days | case |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 days | det |
| 44 | sultry | sultry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 45 days | amod |
| 45 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 made | obl |
| 46 | of | of | ADP | _ | 47 summer | case |
| 47 | summer | summer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 days | nmod |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 perfumed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | perfume | past · passive | fragrant shrubs and flowers | the air | the groves and the gush of fountains and waterfalls obl | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent subject=Destination | |||
| 2 | resound | participle | the groves and the gush of fountains and waterfalls not said here | with the song of the nightingale | vn sound_existence-47.4 «NP.location V NP.theme»: agent=Location with song=Theme | ||||
| 3 | make | past | the distant murmur of the Tagus | air | day | a delightful retreat obj | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset it=Beneficiary retreat=Product | ||
| 4 | sing | the nightingale | nom song «communication intransitive»: of=agent | ||||||
| 5 | gush | fountains and waterfalls | nom gush «event intransitive»: of=agent | ||||||
| 6 | murmur | the Tagus | nom murmur «event 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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