Legends of the conquest of Spain, Story of the Marvellous and Portentous Tower., sentence 5
To the thinking mind the whole world is enveloped in mystery, and every thing is full of type and portent.
Who acts: thing · What happens: envelop, be · To what, where: whole world, mystery
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 (thing), 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 | To | to | ADP | _ | 4 mind | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 mind | det |
| 3 | thinking | thinking | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 mind | compound |
| 4 | mind | mind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 enveloped | obl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 world | det |
| 6 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 world | amod |
| 7 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 enveloped | nsubj |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 enveloped | aux:pass |
| 9 | enveloped | envelop | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 11 mystery | case |
| 11 | mystery | mystery | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 enveloped | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 full | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 full | cc |
| 14 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 thing | det |
| 15 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 full | nsubj |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 full | cop |
| 17 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 enveloped | parataxis |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 type | case |
| 19 | type | type | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 full | obl |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 portent | cc |
| 21 | portent | portent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 type | conj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 enveloped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | envelop | present · passive | the whole world | mystery | to the thinking mind | vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: subject=Co-Theme | |||
| 2 | is | present | every thing | of type and portent; full property | 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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