Legends of the conquest of Spain, Don Roderick Receives an Extraordinary Embassy., sentence 6
They were arrayed in white garments of foreign or antiquated fashion, which swept the ground, and were cinctured with girdles, wrought with the signs of the zodiac, from which were suspended enormous bunches of keys of every variety of form.
Who acts: foreign antiquated fashion · What happens: array, antiquate, sweep, cincture, suspend, sign · To what, where: hairs, white garments, ground, girdles, enormous bunches, zodiac
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 (foreign antiquated fashion), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 arrayed | nsubj |
| 2 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 arrayed | aux:pass |
| 3 | arrayed | array | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 garments | case |
| 5 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 garments | amod |
| 6 | garments | garment | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 arrayed | obl |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 fashion | case |
| 8 | foreign | foreign | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 fashion | amod |
| 9 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 10 antiquated | cc |
| 10 | antiquated | antiquate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 fashion | amod |
| 11 | fashion | fashion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 garments | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 swept | punct |
| 13 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 swept | nsubj |
| 14 | swept | sweep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 fashion | acl:relcl |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 ground | det |
| 16 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 swept | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 cinctured | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 cinctured | cc |
| 19 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 cinctured | aux:pass |
| 20 | cinctured | cincture | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 arrayed | conj |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 girdles | case |
| 22 | girdles | girdle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 cinctured | obj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 wrought | punct |
| 24 | wrought | wrought | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 girdles | amod |
| 25 | with | with | ADP | _ | 27 signs | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 signs | det |
| 27 | signs | sign | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 wrought | obl |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 zodiac | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 zodiac | det |
| 30 | zodiac | zodiac | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 signs | nmod |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 suspended | punct |
| 32 | from | from | ADP | _ | 33 which | case |
| 33 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 35 suspended | obl |
| 34 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 suspended | aux:pass |
| 35 | suspended | suspend | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 cinctured | conj |
| 36 | enormous | enormous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 bunches | amod |
| 37 | bunches | bunch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 suspended | obj |
| 38 | of | of | ADP | _ | 39 keys | case |
| 39 | keys | key | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 bunches | nmod |
| 40 | of | of | ADP | _ | 42 variety | case |
| 41 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 42 variety | det |
| 42 | variety | variety | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 keys | nmod |
| 43 | of | of | ADP | _ | 44 form | case |
| 44 | form | form | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 variety | nmod |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 arrayed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | array | past · passive | hairs = hair | white garments of foreign antiquated fashion | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | antiquate | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | sweep | past | foreign antiquated fashion | the ground | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme ground=Trajectory | ||||
| 4 | cincture | past · passive | girdles | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | suspend | past · passive | enormous bunches of keys of every variety of form | which obl | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP PP.source»: bunch=Theme from which=Source | ||||
| 6 | sign | the zodiac | nom sign «communication 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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