Legends of the conquest of Spain, Story of the Marvellous and Portentous Tower., sentence 42
The walls were incrusted with the most precious gems, so joined together as to form one smooth and perfect surface.
What happens: incrust, join, form · To what, where: walls, one smooth surface
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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 walls | det |
| 2 | walls | wall | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 incrusted | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 incrusted | aux:pass |
| 4 | incrusted | incrust | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 gems | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 gems | det |
| 7 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 8 precious | advmod |
| 8 | precious | precious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 gems | amod |
| 9 | gems | gem | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 incrusted | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 joined | punct |
| 11 | so | so | ADV | _ | 12 joined | advmod |
| 12 | joined | join | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 incrusted | parataxis |
| 13 | together | together | ADV | _ | 12 joined | advmod |
| 14 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 16 form | mark |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 form | mark |
| 16 | form | form | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 joined | advcl |
| 17 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 21 surface | nummod |
| 18 | smooth | smooth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 surface | amod |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 perfect | cc |
| 20 | perfect | perfect | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 smooth | conj |
| 21 | surface | surface | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 form | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 incrusted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | incrust | past · passive | the walls | with the precious gems | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | join | participle | together property | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 3 | form | to-infinitive | one smooth surface | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location surface=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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