Legends of the conquest of Spain, Story of the Marvellous and Portentous Tower., sentence 36
It held a huge mace, which it whirled incessantly, giving such cruel and resounding blows upon the earth as to prevent all further entrance.
Who acts: figure, huge mace · What happens: hold, whirl, give, prevent · To what, where: huge mace, such cruel blows, further entrance
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 (figure, huge mace), 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 | 2 held | nsubj |
| 2 | held | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 mace | det |
| 4 | huge | huge | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 mace | amod |
| 5 | mace | mace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 held | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 whirled | punct |
| 7 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 whirled | nsubj |
| 8 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 whirled | nsubj |
| 9 | whirled | whirl | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 mace | acl:relcl |
| 10 | incessantly | incessantly | ADV | _ | 9 whirled | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 giving | punct |
| 12 | giving | give | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 whirled | advcl |
| 13 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 blows | amod |
| 14 | cruel | cruel | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 blows | amod |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 resounding | cc |
| 16 | resounding | resounding | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 cruel | conj |
| 17 | blows | blow | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 giving | obj |
| 18 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 20 earth | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 earth | det |
| 20 | earth | earth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 giving | obl |
| 21 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 23 prevent | mark |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 prevent | mark |
| 23 | prevent | prevent | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 giving | advcl |
| 24 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 26 entrance | det |
| 25 | further | further | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 entrance | amod |
| 26 | entrance | entrance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 prevent | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 held | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hold | past | figure | a huge mace | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mace=Theme | ||||
| 2 | whirl | past | a huge mace | figure nsubj; incessantly property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | give | gerund | a huge mace not said here | such cruel blows | upon the earth | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent blow=Theme | |||
| 4 | prevent | to-infinitive | a huge mace not said here | all further entrance | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer entrance=Theme |
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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