Legends of the conquest of Spain, Story of the Marvellous and Portentous Tower., sentence 7
This singular tower was round, and of great height and grandeur; erected upon a lofty rock, and surrounded by crags and precipices.
Who acts: singular tower · What happens: be, erect, surround
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 (singular tower), 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 tower | det |
| 2 | singular | singular | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 tower | amod |
| 3 | tower | tower | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 round | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 round | cop |
| 5 | round | round | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 height | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 height | cc |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 height | case |
| 9 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 height | amod |
| 10 | height | height | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 round | conj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 grandeur | cc |
| 12 | grandeur | grandeur | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 height | conj |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 erected | punct |
| 14 | erected | erect | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 round | conj |
| 15 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 18 rock | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 rock | det |
| 17 | lofty | lofty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 rock | amod |
| 18 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 erected | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 surrounded | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 surrounded | cc |
| 21 | surrounded | surround | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 round | conj |
| 22 | by | by | ADP | _ | 23 crags | case |
| 23 | crags | crag | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 surrounded | obl:agent |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 precipices | cc |
| 25 | precipices | precipice | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 crags | conj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 round | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | this singular tower | great height and grandeur conj; round property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | erect | participle | this singular tower not said here | upon a lofty rock | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | surround | participle | this singular tower not said here | crags and precipices obl:agent | vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=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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