Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter VIII., sentence 16
The victory at Ceuta resounded throughout Tingitania, and spread universal joy.
Who acts: victory · What happens: resound, spread · To what, where: Tingitania, universal joy
This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Chapter VIII.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (victory), 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 victory | det |
| 2 | victory | victory | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 resounded | nsubj |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 4 Ceuta | case |
| 4 | Ceuta | Ceuta | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 victory | nmod |
| 5 | resounded | resound | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | throughout | throughout | ADP | _ | 7 Tingitania | case |
| 7 | Tingitania | Tingitania | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 resounded | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 spread | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 spread | cc |
| 10 | spread | spread | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 resounded | conj |
| 11 | universal | universal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 joy | amod |
| 12 | joy | joy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 spread | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 resounded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | resound | past | the victory at Ceuta | Tingitania | vn sound_existence-47.4 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme throughout tingitania=Location | ||||
| 2 | spread | past | the victory at Ceuta not said here | universal joy | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location joy=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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