Legends of the conquest of Spain, Story of the Marvellous and Portentous Tower., sentence 13
Here there was a narrow arched way cut through the living stone; the only entrance to the tower.
What happens: arch, be, cut · To what, where: narrow arched way
This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Story of the Marvellous and Portentous Tower.. 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 | Here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 was | advmod |
| 2 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 was | expl |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 way | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 way | det |
| 5 | narrow | narrow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 way | amod |
| 6 | arched | arch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 way | amod |
| 7 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | cut | cut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 way | acl |
| 9 | through | through | ADP | _ | 12 stone | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 stone | det |
| 11 | living | living | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 stone | compound |
| 12 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 cut | obl |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 entrance | punct |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 entrance | det |
| 15 | only | only | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 entrance | amod |
| 16 | entrance | entrance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 way | conj |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 tower | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 tower | det |
| 19 | tower | tower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 entrance | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 way | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | arch | participle | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | is a | past | a narrow arched way and the only entrance to the tower | the only entrance to the tower conj | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | cut | participle | a narrow arched way and the only entrance to the tower not said here | through the living stone | vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent through stone=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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