Legends of the conquest of Spain, Story of the Marvellous and Portentous Tower., sentence 82
An eagle appeared high in the air, seeming to descend from heaven.
Who acts: eagle · What happens: appear, seem, descend · To what, where: air, heaven
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 (eagle), 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 | An | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 eagle | det |
| 2 | eagle | eagle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 appeared | nsubj |
| 3 | appeared | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 appeared | xcomp |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 air | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 air | det |
| 7 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 appeared | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 seeming | punct |
| 9 | seeming | seem | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 appeared | advcl |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 descend | mark |
| 11 | descend | descend | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 seeming | xcomp |
| 12 | from | from | ADP | _ | 13 heaven | case |
| 13 | heaven | heaven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 descend | obl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 appeared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | appear | past | a eagle | the air | high property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in air=Location | |||
| 2 | seem | gerund | a eagle not said here | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | |||||
| 3 | descend | to-infinitive | a eagle not said here | heaven | vn meander-47.7-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from heaven=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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