Legends of the conquest of Spain, Story of the Marvellous and Portentous Tower., sentence 46
In the centre of this hall stood a table of alabaster, of the rarest workmanship, on which was inscribed in Greek characters, that Hercules Alcides, the Theban Greek, had founded this tower in the year of the world three thousand and six.
What happens: stand, inscribe, found · To what, where: table, centre, Greek characters, Hercules
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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 centre | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 centre | det |
| 3 | centre | centre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 stood | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 hall | case |
| 5 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 hall | det |
| 6 | hall | hall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 centre | nmod |
| 7 | stood | stand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 table | det |
| 9 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 stood | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 alabaster | case |
| 11 | alabaster | alabaster | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 table | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 workmanship | punct |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 workmanship | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 workmanship | det |
| 15 | rarest | rare | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 16 workmanship | amod |
| 16 | workmanship | workmanship | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 stood | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 inscribed | punct |
| 18 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 which | case |
| 19 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 inscribed | obl |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 inscribed | aux:pass |
| 21 | inscribed | inscribe | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 stood | parataxis |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 characters | case |
| 23 | Greek | Greek | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 characters | amod |
| 24 | characters | character | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 inscribed | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 founded | punct |
| 26 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 35 founded | mark |
| 27 | Hercules | Hercules | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 founded | nsubj:pass |
| 28 | Alcides | Alcides | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 Hercules | flat |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 Greek | punct |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 Greek | det |
| 31 | Theban | Theban | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 Greek | compound |
| 32 | Greek | Greek | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 Hercules | conj |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 Hercules | punct |
| 34 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 founded | aux |
| 35 | founded | found | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 inscribed | conj |
| 36 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 37 tower | det |
| 37 | tower | tower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 founded | obj |
| 38 | in | in | ADP | _ | 40 year | case |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 year | det |
| 40 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 founded | obl |
| 41 | of | of | ADP | _ | 43 world | case |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 world | det |
| 43 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 year | nmod |
| 44 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 45 thousand | compound |
| 45 | thousand | thousand | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 35 founded | obl |
| 46 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 47 six | cc |
| 47 | six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 45 thousand | conj |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 stood | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stand | past | a table of alabaster | the centre of this hall | of the rarest workmanship | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent table=Theme in centre=Destination | |||
| 2 | inscribe | past · passive | Greek characters | which obl | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.theme PP.destination»: on which=Destination | ||||
| 3 | found | past · perfect · passive | Hercules and the Theban Greek | year | three thousand obl; this tower obj | tree rules |
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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