Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter VIII., sentence 70
The gate in the wall of that city, through which they went forth, continued for ages to bear the name of _Puerta de la Cava_, or the gate of the harlot; for such was the opprobrious and unmerited appellation bestowed by the Moors on the unhappy Florinda.
Who acts: gate · What happens: go, continue, bear, be, bestow, name · To what, where: gate, name, such opprobrious appellation, unhappy Florinda, Puerta
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 (gate), 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 gate | det |
| 2 | gate | gate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 went | nsubj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 wall | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 wall | det |
| 5 | wall | wall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 gate | nmod |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 city | case |
| 7 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 city | det |
| 8 | city | city | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 wall | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 went | punct |
| 10 | through | through | ADP | _ | 11 which | case |
| 11 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 went | obl |
| 12 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 went | nsubj |
| 13 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 13 went | advmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 continued | punct |
| 16 | continued | continue | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 went | parataxis |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 ages | case |
| 18 | ages | age | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 continued | obl |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 bear | mark |
| 20 | bear | bear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 continued | advcl |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 name | det |
| 22 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 bear | obj |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 Puerta | case |
| 24 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 23 of | punct |
| 25 | Puerta | Puerta | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 name | nmod |
| 26 | de | de | X | Foreign=Yes | 25 Puerta | flat:foreign |
| 27 | la | la | X | Foreign=Yes | 25 Puerta | appos |
| 28 | Cava | Cava | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 la | flat |
| 29 | _ | _ | PUNCT | _ | 20 bear | punct |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 gate | punct |
| 31 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 33 gate | cc |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 gate | det |
| 33 | gate | gate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 went | obl |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 harlot | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 harlot | det |
| 36 | harlot | harlot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 gate | nmod |
| 37 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 45 appellation | punct |
| 38 | for | for | ADP | _ | 45 appellation | case |
| 39 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 45 appellation | amod |
| 40 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 45 appellation | cop |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 appellation | det |
| 42 | opprobrious | opprobrious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 45 appellation | amod |
| 43 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 unmerited | cc |
| 44 | unmerited | unmerited | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 opprobrious | conj |
| 45 | appellation | appellation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 went | obl |
| 46 | bestowed | bestow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 45 appellation | acl |
| 47 | by | by | ADP | _ | 49 Moors | case |
| 48 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 49 Moors | det |
| 49 | Moors | moor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 46 bestowed | obl |
| 50 | on | on | ADP | _ | 53 Florinda | case |
| 51 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 53 Florinda | det |
| 52 | unhappy | unhappy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 53 Florinda | amod |
| 53 | Florinda | Florinda | PROPN | Number=Sing | 46 bestowed | obl |
| 54 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | the gate in the wall of that city | the gate of the harlot | which obl; things = thing nsubj; forth property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme through which=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | continue | participle | for ages | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | bear | to-infinitive | the name of Puerta | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent name=Patient | |||||
| 4 | is | past | for the such opprobrious appellation | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | bestow | participle | the such opprobrious appellation not said here | the unhappy Florinda | by the Moors | tree rules | |||
| 6 | name | Puerta | nom name «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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