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title: It is built upon a high rocky promontory, with the Tagus brawling ro… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: It is built upon a high rocky promontory, with the Tagus brawling round its base, and is overlooked by cragged and precipitous hills. Who acts: cragged hills. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, The Cave of Hercules., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of 
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, The Cave of Hercules., sentence 4

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It is built upon a high rocky promontory, with the Tagus brawling round its base, and is overlooked by cragged and precipitous hills.

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**Who acts:** cragged hills · **What happens:** build, overlook · **To what, where:** city

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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 (cragged hills), 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:pg77685:21:4
# text = It is built upon a high rocky promontory, with the Tagus brawling round its base, and is overlooked by cragged and precipitous hills.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	built	build	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
7	rocky	rocky	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	promontory	promontory	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	Tagus	Tagus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	brawling	brawling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
14	round	round	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	base	base	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux:pass	_	_
20	overlooked	overlook	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
21	by	by	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
22	cragged	cragged	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	precipitous	precipitous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	conj	_	_
25	hills	hill	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **build** | present · passive |  | city |  |  |  | upon a high rocky promontory; with the Tagus brawling round city's base | vn base-97.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: subject=Theme with brawling=Source |
| 2 | **overlook** | present · passive | cragged hills |  |  |  |  |  | vn neglect-75.1 «NP V NP»: agent=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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