Legends of the conquest of Spain, Story of the Marvellous and Portentous Tower., sentence 14

It was closed by a massive iron gate, covered with rusty locks of divers workmanship, and in the fashion of different centuries, which had been affixed by the predecessors of Don Roderick.

Who acts: massive iron gate, predecessors · What happens: close, cover, affix · To what, where: entrance, massive iron gate, different centuries

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: who acts (massive iron gate, predecessors), 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	It	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 closed	nsubj
2	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 closed	aux:pass
3	closed	close	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	by	by	ADP	_	8 gate	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	8 gate	det
6	massive	massive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 gate	amod
7	iron	iron	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 gate	compound
8	gate	gate	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 closed	obl
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 covered	punct
10	covered	cover	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 gate	acl
11	with	with	ADP	_	13 locks	case
12	rusty	rusty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 locks	amod
13	locks	lock	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 covered	obl
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 workmanship	case
15	divers	diver	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 workmanship	compound
16	workmanship	workmanship	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 locks	nmod
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 fashion	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 fashion	cc
19	in	in	ADP	_	21 fashion	case
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 fashion	det
21	fashion	fashion	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 closed	obl
22	of	of	ADP	_	24 centuries	case
23	different	different	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 centuries	amod
24	centuries	century	NOUN	Number=Plur	21 fashion	nmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 affixed	punct
26	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	29 affixed	nsubj:pass
27	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 affixed	aux
28	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	29 affixed	aux:pass
29	affixed	affix	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	24 centuries	acl
30	by	by	ADP	_	32 predecessors	case
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	32 predecessors	det
32	predecessors	predecessor	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 affixed	obl
33	of	of	ADP	_	34 Don	case
34	Don	Don	PROPN	Number=Sing	32 predecessors	nmod
35	Roderick	Roderick	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 Don	flat
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 closed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	close	past · passive	a massive iron gate	entrance	in the fashion of different centuries	vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent subject=Patient in fashion=Topic
2	cover	participle		a massive iron gate not said here	with rusty locks of divers workmanship	vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with lock=Theme
3	affix	past · perfect · passive	the predecessors of Don	different centuries		vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=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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The tree

Pragmatics

Legends of the conquest of Spain, Story of the Marvellous and Portentous Tower., sentence 14