Legends of the conquest of Spain, Don Roderick Receives an Extraordinary Embassy., sentence 4
Now, so it happened, according to the legend, that about this time, as King Roderick was seated one day on his throne, surrounded by his nobles, in the ancient city of Toledo, two men of venerable appearance entered the hall of audience.
Who acts: it, ancient city · What happens: happen, accord, seat, surround, enter · To what, where: that, throne, legend, hall
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 (it, ancient city), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 happened | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 happened | punct |
| 3 | so | so | ADV | _ | 5 happened | advmod |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 happened | nsubj |
| 5 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 legend | punct |
| 7 | according | accord | VERB | ExtPos=ADP Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 legend | case |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 according | fixed |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 legend | det |
| 10 | legend | legend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 happened | conj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 seated | punct |
| 12 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 seated | obj |
| 13 | about | about | ADP | _ | 15 time | case |
| 14 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 time | det |
| 15 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 seated | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 time | punct |
| 17 | as | as | ADP | _ | 19 Roderick | case |
| 18 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Roderick | compound |
| 19 | Roderick | Roderick | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 seated | obl |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 seated | aux:pass |
| 21 | seated | seat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 legend | conj |
| 22 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 23 day | nummod |
| 23 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 seated | obl:unmarked |
| 24 | on | on | ADP | _ | 26 throne | case |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 throne | nmod:poss |
| 26 | throne | throne | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 seated | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 surrounded | punct |
| 28 | surrounded | surround | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 legend | acl |
| 29 | by | by | ADP | _ | 31 nobles | case |
| 30 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 nobles | nmod:poss |
| 31 | nobles | noble | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 surrounded | obl:agent |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 city | punct |
| 33 | in | in | ADP | _ | 36 city | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 city | det |
| 35 | ancient | ancient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 city | amod |
| 36 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 entered | nsubj |
| 37 | of | of | ADP | _ | 38 Toledo | case |
| 38 | Toledo | Toledo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 city | nmod |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 men | punct |
| 40 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 41 men | nummod |
| 41 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 45 entered | nsubj |
| 42 | of | of | ADP | _ | 44 appearance | case |
| 43 | venerable | venerable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 44 appearance | amod |
| 44 | appearance | appearance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 men | nmod |
| 45 | entered | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 happened | parataxis |
| 46 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 47 hall | det |
| 47 | hall | hall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 entered | obj |
| 48 | of | of | ADP | _ | 49 audience | case |
| 49 | audience | audience | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 hall | nmod |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 happened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | past | it | now | the legend conj | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | accord | gerund | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | seat | past · passive | that | Roderick's throne | day; time | as King Roderick | vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP»: that=Value | ||
| 4 | surround | participle | the legend not said here | Roderick's nobles obl:agent | vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | enter | past | the ancient city of Toledo | the hall of audience | two men of venerable appearance nsubj | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme hall=Destination |
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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