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title: [11] From the minute account of the good friar, drawn from the ancie… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: [11] From the minute account of the good friar, drawn from the ancient chronicles, it would appear that the walls of the tower were pictured in mosaic work. Who acts: it. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, The Cave of Hercules., with its dependency tree and the pr
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, The Cave of Hercules., sentence 80

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\[11\] From the minute account of the good friar, drawn from the ancient chronicles, it would appear that the walls of the tower were pictured in mosaic work.

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**Who acts:** it · **What happens:** draw, appear, picture, account · **To what, where:** good friar, walls, mosaic work, 11

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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 (it), 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:pg77685:21:81
# text = [11] From the minute account of the good friar, drawn from the ancient chronicles, it would appear that the walls of the tower were pictured in mosaic work.
1	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	11	11	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	2	punct	_	_
4	From	from	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	minute	minute	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	account	account	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	friar	friar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	drawn	draw	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	acl	_	_
14	from	from	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	ancient	ancient	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	chronicles	chronicle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
20	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	appear	appear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	advcl	_	_
22	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	walls	wall	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	nsubj:pass	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	tower	tower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	_
28	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	aux:pass	_	_
29	pictured	picture	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	advcl	_	_
30	in	in	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	mosaic	mosaic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	work	work	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **draw** | participle |  | the good friar *not said here* |  |  |  | from the ancient chronicles | vn split-23.2 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient from chronicle=Co-Patient |
| 2 | **appear** | would | it |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **picture** | past · passive |  | the walls of the tower |  | mosaic work |  |  | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP S\_ING»: subject=Theme |
| 5 | **account** |  |  | the good friar |  |  |  |  | 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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