Legends of the conquest of Spain, Story of the Marvellous and Portentous Tower., sentence 2
The shining cavalcade wound up the road that leads among the mountains, and soon came in sight of the necromantic tower.
Who acts: shining cavalcade, road · What happens: shine, woun up, lead, come, sight · To what, where: road, mountains, sight, necromantic tower
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 (shining cavalcade, road), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 cavalcade | det |
| 2 | shining | shine | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 cavalcade | amod |
| 3 | cavalcade | cavalcade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 came | nsubj |
| 4 | wound | woun | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 cavalcade | acl |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 4 wound | compound:prt |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 road | det |
| 7 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 wound | obl |
| 8 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 leads | nsubj |
| 9 | leads | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 road | acl:relcl |
| 10 | among | among | ADP | _ | 12 mountains | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 mountains | det |
| 12 | mountains | mountain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 leads | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 came | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 came | cc |
| 15 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 16 came | advmod |
| 16 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 sight | case |
| 18 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 came | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 tower | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 tower | det |
| 21 | necromantic | necromantic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 tower | amod |
| 22 | tower | tower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 sight | nmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shine | gerund | vn light_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 2 | woun up | participle | the shining cavalcade not said here | the road | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | lead | present | the road | the mountains | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent among mountain=Destination | ||||
| 4 | come | past | the shining cavalcade | sight of the necromantic tower | soon property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in sight=Location | |||
| 5 | sight | the necromantic tower | nom sight «cognition 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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