Legends of the conquest of Spain, Don Roderick Receives an Extraordinary Embassy., sentence 25
Doubtless, in this tower are locked up treasures of gold and jewels, amassed in days of old, the spoils of mighty kings, the riches of the pagan world.
What happens: lock up, amass, spoil, treasure · To what, where: Doubtless, treasures, gold
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: 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 | Doubtless | Doubtless | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 locked | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 tower | punct |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 tower | case |
| 4 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 tower | det |
| 5 | tower | tower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Doubtless | appos |
| 6 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 locked | aux:pass |
| 7 | locked | lock | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | up | up | ADP | _ | 7 locked | compound:prt |
| 9 | treasures | treasure | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 locked | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 gold | case |
| 11 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 treasures | nmod |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 jewels | cc |
| 13 | jewels | jewel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 treasures | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 amassed | punct |
| 15 | amassed | amass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 treasures | acl |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 days | case |
| 17 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 amassed | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 old | case |
| 19 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 days | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 spoils | punct |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 spoils | det |
| 22 | spoils | spoil | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 locked | parataxis |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 kings | case |
| 24 | mighty | mighty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 kings | amod |
| 25 | kings | king | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 spoils | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 riches | punct |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 riches | det |
| 28 | riches | rich | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 kings | conj |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 world | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 world | det |
| 31 | pagan | pagan | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 world | amod |
| 32 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 riches | nmod |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 locked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lock up | present · passive | Doubtless | treasures of gold and jewels obj | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP ADJP»: subject=Patient treasure=Result | ||||
| 2 | amass | participle | treasures of gold and jewels not said here | day | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | spoil | present | of mighty kings and the riches of the pagan world | vn entity_specific_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 4 | treasure | gold | nom treasure «possession 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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