Legends of the conquest of Spain, Don Roderick Receives an Extraordinary Embassy., sentence 8
He built it of prodigious strength, and finished it with magic art, shutting up within it a fearful secret, never to be penetrated without peril and disaster.
Who acts: Libya · What happens: build, finish, shut up, not penetrate · To what, where: tower, fearful secret
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 (Libya), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 built | nsubj |
| 2 | built | build | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 built | obj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 strength | case |
| 5 | prodigious | prodigious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 strength | amod |
| 6 | strength | strength | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 built | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 finished | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 finished | cc |
| 9 | finished | finish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 built | conj |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 finished | obj |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 art | case |
| 12 | magic | magic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 art | amod |
| 13 | art | art | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 finished | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 shutting | punct |
| 15 | shutting | shut | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 finished | advcl |
| 16 | up | up | ADP | _ | 15 shutting | compound:prt |
| 17 | within | within | ADP | _ | 18 it | case |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 shutting | obl |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 secret | det |
| 20 | fearful | fearful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 secret | amod |
| 21 | secret | secret | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 shutting | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 penetrated | punct |
| 23 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 26 penetrated | advmod |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 penetrated | mark |
| 25 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 26 penetrated | aux:pass |
| 26 | penetrated | penetrate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 shutting | conj |
| 27 | without | without | ADP | _ | 28 peril | case |
| 28 | peril | peril | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 penetrated | obl |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 disaster | cc |
| 30 | disaster | disaster | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 peril | conj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 built | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | build | past | Libya | tower | of prodigious strength | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Product | |||
| 2 | finish | past | Libya not said here | tower | with magic art | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality PP.subeventuality»: agent=Affector it=Eventuality with art=Subeventuality | |||
| 3 | shut up | gerund | Libya not said here | a fearful secret | within tower | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent secret=Patient | |||
| 4 | not penetrate | to-infinitive · passive | Libya not said here | without peril and disaster | vn poke-19 «NP V NP» |
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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