Legends of the conquest of Spain, Story of the Marvellous and Portentous Tower., sentence 43
The lofty dome appeared to be self-supported, and was studded with gems, lustrous as the stars of the firmament.
Who acts: lofty dome · What happens: appear, support, stud
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 (lofty dome), 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 dome | det |
| 2 | lofty | lofty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 dome | amod |
| 3 | dome | dome | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 appeared | nsubj |
| 4 | appeared | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 supported | mark |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 supported | aux:pass |
| 7 | self | self | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 supported | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 self | punct |
| 9 | supported | support | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 appeared | advcl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 studded | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 studded | cc |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 studded | aux:pass |
| 13 | studded | stud | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 appeared | conj |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 gems | case |
| 15 | gems | gem | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 studded | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 lustrous | punct |
| 17 | lustrous | lustrous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 studded | conj |
| 18 | as | as | ADP | _ | 20 stars | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 stars | det |
| 20 | stars | star | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 lustrous | obl |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 firmament | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 firmament | det |
| 23 | firmament | firmament | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 stars | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 appeared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | appear | past | the lofty dome | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | support | to-infinitive · passive | the lofty dome not said here | self compound | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S» | ||||
| 3 | stud | past · passive | the lofty dome not said here | with gems | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP PP.theme»: with gem=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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