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title: It is supposed to be a piece of literary mosaic work, made up from b… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: It is supposed to be a piece of literary mosaic work, made up from both Spanish and Arabian chronicles: yet from this work most of the Spanish historians have drawn their particulars relative to the fortunes of Don Roderick. 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 54

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It is supposed to be a piece of literary mosaic work, made up from both Spanish and Arabian chronicles: yet from this work most of the Spanish historians have drawn their particulars relative to the fortunes of Don Roderick.

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**What happens:** suppose, be, make up, draw · **To what, where:** Many, piece, Spanish chronicles, work

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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: 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:pg77685:21:54
# text = It is supposed to be a piece of literary mosaic work, made up from both Spanish and Arabian chronicles: yet from this work most of the Spanish historians have drawn their particulars relative to the fortunes of Don Roderick.
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	supposed	suppose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
5	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	cop	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	piece	piece	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	xcomp	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	literary	literary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
10	mosaic	mosaic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
14	up	up	ADP	RP	_	13	compound:prt	_	_
15	from	from	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
16	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	20	det	_	_
17	Spanish	Spanish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	Arabian	Arabian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	conj	_	_
20	chronicles	chronicle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	32	punct	_	_
22	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
23	from	from	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	25	det	_	_
25	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nsubj:pass	_	_
26	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	32	nsubj:pass	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	Spanish	Spanish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	historians	historian	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nmod	_	_
31	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
32	drawn	draw	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
33	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	34	nmod:poss	_	_
34	particulars	particular	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	obj	_	_
35	relative	relative	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
36	to	to	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	fortunes	fortune	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	obl	_	_
39	of	of	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
40	Don	Don	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	38	nmod	_	_
41	Roderick	Roderick	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	40	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **suppose** | present · passive |  | Many |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Attribute |
| 2 | **is a** | to-infinitive |  | a piece |  |  |  | of literary mosaic work | tree rules |
| 3 | **make up** | participle |  |  |  | both Spanish chronicles |  |  | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **draw** | present · perfect · passive |  | this work |  |  |  | to the fortunes of Don; historians's particulars *obj*; relative *property* | vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: subject=Beneficiary particular=Result |

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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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