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title: It is, in some places, of rare architecture, built of small stones c… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: It is, in some places, of rare architecture, built of small stones curiously wrought, and supported by columns and arches. Who acts: city. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, The Cave of Hercules., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, The Cave of Hercules., sentence 17

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It is, in some places, of rare architecture, built of small stones curiously wrought, and supported by columns and arches.

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**Who acts:** city · **What happens:** be, build, support · **To what, where:** places, rare architecture

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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 (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:pg77685:21:17
# text = It is, in some places, of rare architecture, built of small stones curiously wrought, and supported by columns and arches.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	6	det	_	_
6	places	place	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	rare	rare	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	architecture	architecture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	built	build	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	acl	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	stones	stone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
16	curiously	curiously	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	wrought	wrought	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	supported	support	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl	_	_
21	by	by	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	columns	column	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl:agent	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	arches	arch	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | city |  |  | some places |  | rare architecture *appos* | tree rules |
| 2 | **build** | participle |  | rare architecture *not said here* |  |  |  | of small stones | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 3 | **support** | participle |  | some places *not said here* |  |  |  | columns and arches *obl:agent* | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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