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title: Of all the marvels, however, of this ancient, picturesque, romantic,… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: Of all the marvels, however, of this ancient, picturesque, romantic, and necromantic city, none in modern times surpass the cave of Hercules, if we may take the account of Don Pedro de Roxas for authentic. Who acts: none, we. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, The
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, The Cave of Hercules., sentence 13

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Of all the marvels, however, of this ancient, picturesque, romantic, and necromantic city, none in modern times surpass the cave of Hercules, if we may take the account of Don Pedro de Roxas for authentic.

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**Who acts:** none, we · **What happens:** surpass, take, account · **To what, where:** cave, account, Don

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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 (none, we), 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:pg77685:21:13
# text = Of all the marvels, however, of this ancient, picturesque, romantic, and necromantic city, none in modern times surpass the cave of Hercules, if we may take the account of Don Pedro de Roxas for authentic.
1	Of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	4	det:predet	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	marvels	marvel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	however	however	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
9	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	18	nsubj	_	_
10	ancient	ancient	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	picturesque	picturesque	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	romantic	romantic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	necromantic	necromantic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
20	none	none	PRON	NN	PronType=Neg	24	nsubj	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	modern	modern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nmod	_	_
24	surpass	surpass	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	cave	cave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	Hercules	Hercules	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
30	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	33	mark	_	_
31	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	33	nsubj	_	_
32	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	33	aux	_	_
33	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	conj	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	account	account	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obj	_	_
36	of	of	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	Don	Don	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	nmod	_	_
38	Pedro	Pedro	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	37	flat	_	_
39	de	de	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	37	flat	_	_
40	Roxas	Roxas	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	37	flat	_	_
41	for	for	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
42	authentic	authentic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	24	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **surpass** | infinitive | none in modern times | the cave of Hercules |  |  |  | of all marvels; of ancient necromantic city  this; however *property* | vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot cave=Theme |
| 2 | **take** *a condition, not said to happen* | may | we | the account of Don |  |  |  | for authentic | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent account=Theme for authentic=Beneficiary |
| 3 | **account** |  |  | Don |  |  |  |  | nom account «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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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