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title: To discard, however, every thing wild and marvellous in this portion… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: To discard, however, every thing wild and marvellous in this portion of Spanish history, is to discard some of its most beautiful, instructive, and national features; it is to judge of Spain by the standard of probability suited to tamer and more prosaic countries. Who acts: history. A sentence of «
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Opening, sentence 16

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To discard, however, every thing wild and marvellous in this portion of Spanish history, is to discard some of its most beautiful, instructive, and national features; it is to judge of Spain by the standard of probability suited to tamer and more prosaic countries.

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**Who acts:** history · **What happens:** be, suit, feature · **To what, where:** standard

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This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Opening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (history), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg77685:1:16
# text = To discard, however, every thing wild and marvellous in this portion of Spanish history, is to discard some of its most beautiful, instructive, and national features; it is to judge of Spain by the standard of probability suited to tamer and more prosaic countries.
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	discard	discard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	however	however	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	7	det	_	_
7	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	ccomp	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	marvellous	marvellous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	conj	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	13	det	_	_
13	portion	portion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	Spanish	Spanish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	history	history	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
18	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	discard	discard	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
21	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	20	obj	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
23	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
24	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	25	advmod	_	_
25	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
27	instructive	instructive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
30	national	national	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	features	feature	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	36	punct	_	_
33	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj	_	_
34	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	36	cop	_	_
35	to	to	PART	TO	_	36	mark	_	_
36	judge	judge	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	conj	_	_
37	of	of	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	Spain	Spain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	_
39	by	by	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	standard	standard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	_
42	of	of	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
43	probability	probability	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	nmod	_	_
44	suited	suit	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	41	acl	_	_
45	to	to	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
46	tamer	tamer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	obl	_	_
47	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	50	cc	_	_
48	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	49	advmod	_	_
49	prosaic	prosaic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	50	amod	_	_
50	countries	country	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	46	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	20	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present |  |  |  |  |  | discard *advcl*; discard *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present | history |  |  |  |  | of Spain; by the standard of probability; judge *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **suit** | participle |  | the standard of probability *not said here* |  |  |  | to tamer and prosaic countries | tree rules |
| 4 | **feature** |  | history |  |  |  |  |  | nom feature «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |

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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.

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**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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