Legends of the conquest of Spain, Story of the Marvellous and Portentous Tower., sentence 79
In the morning the heavens were again serene, and all nature was restored to tranquillity.
Who acts: heavens · What happens: be, restore · To what, where: nature, tranquillity
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 (heavens), 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 morning | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 morning | det |
| 3 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 serene | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 heavens | det |
| 5 | heavens | heaven | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 serene | nsubj |
| 6 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 serene | cop |
| 7 | again | again | ADV | _ | 8 serene | advmod |
| 8 | serene | serene | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 restored | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 restored | cc |
| 11 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 12 nature | det |
| 12 | nature | nature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 restored | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 restored | aux:pass |
| 14 | restored | restore | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 serene | conj |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 tranquillity | case |
| 16 | tranquillity | tranquillity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 restored | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 serene | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the heavens | again; morning | serene property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | restore | past · passive | all nature | tranquillity | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Theme to tranquillity=Recipient |
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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