Legends of the conquest of Spain, Don Roderick Receives an Extraordinary Embassy., sentence 13

Thus, since the days of Hercules, the inmost recesses of the pile have never been penetrated by mortal man, and a profound mystery continues to prevail over this great enchantment.

Who acts: mortal man, profound mystery · What happens: not penetrate, continue, prevail, recess · To what, where: great enchantment, pile

This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Don Roderick Receives an Extraordinary Embassy.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mortal man, profound mystery), 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	Thus	thus	ADV	_	18 penetrated	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Thus	punct
3	since	since	ADP	_	5 days	case
4	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 days	det
5	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 penetrated	obl
6	of	of	ADP	_	7 Hercules	case
7	Hercules	Hercules	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 days	nmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 recesses	punct
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 recesses	det
10	inmost	inmost	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 recesses	amod
11	recesses	recess	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 Hercules	appos
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 pile	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 pile	det
14	pile	pile	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 recesses	nmod
15	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 penetrated	aux
16	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	18 penetrated	advmod
17	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	18 penetrated	aux:pass
18	penetrated	penetrate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
19	by	by	ADP	_	21 man	case
20	mortal	mortal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 man	amod
21	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 penetrated	obl
22	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 continues	punct
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 continues	cc
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 mystery	det
25	profound	profound	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 mystery	amod
26	mystery	mystery	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 continues	nsubj
27	continues	continue	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 penetrated	conj
28	to	to	PART	_	29 prevail	mark
29	prevail	prevail	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 continues	xcomp
30	over	over	ADP	_	33 enchantment	case
31	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	33 enchantment	det
32	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 enchantment	amod
33	enchantment	enchantment	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 prevail	obl
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	18 penetrated	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	not penetrate	present · perfect · passive	mortal man			day	thus property	vn poke-19 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	continue	present	a profound mystery					vn continue-55.3 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	prevail	to-infinitive	a profound mystery not said here		this great enchantment			vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over enchantment=Location
4	recess			the pile				nom recess «state 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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The tree

Pragmatics

Legends of the conquest of Spain, Don Roderick Receives an Extraordinary Embassy., sentence 13