Legends of the conquest of Spain, Story of the Marvellous and Portentous Tower., sentence 76
The mountains shook and echoed with the thunder, trees were uprooted and blown down, and the Tagus raged and roared and flowed above its banks.
Who acts: mountains, Tagus · What happens: shake, echo, uproot, blow down, rage, roar · To what, where: trees, banks
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 (mountains, Tagus), 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 mountains | det |
| 2 | mountains | mountain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 shook | nsubj |
| 3 | shook | shake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 echoed | cc |
| 5 | echoed | echo | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 shook | conj |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 thunder | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 thunder | det |
| 8 | thunder | thunder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 echoed | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 uprooted | punct |
| 10 | trees | tree | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 uprooted | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 uprooted | aux:pass |
| 12 | uprooted | uproot | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 shook | conj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 blown | cc |
| 14 | blown | blow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 uprooted | conj |
| 15 | down | down | ADP | _ | 14 blown | compound:prt |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 raged | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 raged | cc |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Tagus | det |
| 19 | Tagus | Tagus | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 raged | nsubj |
| 20 | raged | rage | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 shook | parataxis |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 roared | cc |
| 22 | roared | roar | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 raged | conj |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 flowed | cc |
| 24 | flowed | flow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 raged | conj |
| 25 | above | above | ADP | _ | 27 banks | case |
| 26 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 banks | nmod:poss |
| 27 | banks | bank | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 flowed | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 shook | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shake | past | the mountains | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 2 | echo | past | the mountains not said here | with the thunder | vn sound_existence-47.4 «NP.location V NP.theme»: agent=Location with thunder=Theme | ||||
| 3 | uproot | past · passive | trees | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 4 | blow down | participle | vn split-23.2 «NP V apart»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 5 | rage | past | the Tagus | vn entity_specific_modes_being-47.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | roar | past | the Tagus not said here | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 7 | flow | past | the Tagus not said here | Tagus's banks | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme above bank=Location |
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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