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title: As the story of the necromantic tower is one of the most famous as w… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: As the story of the necromantic tower is one of the most famous as well as least credible points in the history of Don Roderick, it may be well to fortify or buttress it by some account of another marvel of the city of Toledo. Who acts: history, city. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain»
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, The Cave of Hercules., sentence 1

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As the story of the necromantic tower is one of the most famous as well as least credible points in the history of Don Roderick, it may be well to fortify or buttress it by some account of another marvel of the city of Toledo.

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**Who acts:** history, city · **What happens:** be, buttress, account, marvel · **To what, where:** one, history, marvel

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This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, The Cave of Hercules.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (history, city), 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:pg77685:21:1
# text = As the story of the necromantic tower is one of the most famous as well as least credible points in the history of Don Roderick, it may be well to fortify or buttress it by some account of another marvel of the city of Toledo.
1	As	as	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	necromantic	necromantic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	tower	tower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
8	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
9	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	13	advmod	_	_
13	famous	famous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	nmod	_	_
14	as	as	ADV	RB	ExtPos=CCONJ	19	cc	_	_
15	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	14	fixed	_	_
16	as	as	ADP	IN	_	14	fixed	_	_
17	least	least	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	19	advmod	_	_
18	credible	credible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	points	point	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	conj	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	history	history	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	Don	Don	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
25	Roderick	Roderick	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
27	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
28	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
29	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	32	cop	_	_
30	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	32	advmod	_	_
31	to	to	PART	TO	_	32	mark	_	_
32	fortify	fortify	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	acl:relcl	_	_
33	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
34	buttress	buttress	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	32	conj	_	_
35	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	obj	_	_
36	by	by	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	38	det	_	_
38	account	account	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	_
39	of	of	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	41	det	_	_
41	marvel	marvel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nmod	_	_
42	of	of	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
43	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
44	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	nmod	_	_
45	of	of	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
46	Toledo	Toledo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	44	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present |  | one |  |  |  | as the story of the necromantic tower; of the famous as credible points in the history of Don | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | may | history |  |  |  |  | fortify, well *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **buttress** | infinitive | history *not said here* | history |  |  |  | by some account of another marvel of the city of Toledo | vn support-15.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot it=Theme |
| 4 | **account** |  |  | another marvel of the city of Toledo |  |  |  |  | nom account «communication transitive»: of=patient |
| 5 | **marvel** |  | the city of Toledo |  |  |  |  |  | nom marvel «event intransitive»: of=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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