--- title: We shall follow his steps, and avail ourselves of his information, l… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics description: We shall follow his steps, and avail ourselves of his information, laboriously collected from various sources; and, truly, the story of each of the actors in this great historical drama bears with it its striking moral, and is full of admonition and instruction. Who acts: We, striking moral, story. --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77685/33/41/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Legends of the conquest of Spain](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77685/) / [Chapter XII.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77685/33/) / 41 # Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter XII., sentence 41 We shall follow his steps, and avail ourselves of his information, laboriously collected from various sources; and, truly, the story of each of the actors in this great historical drama bears with it its striking moral, and is full of admonition and instruction. **Who acts:** We, striking moral, story · **What happens:** follow, avail, collect, strike, be, step · **To what, where:** steps, ourselves, information, various sources This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Chapter XII.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (We, striking moral, story), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg77685:33:41 # text = We shall follow his steps, and avail ourselves of his information, laboriously collected from various sources; and, truly, the story of each of the actors in this great historical drama bears with it its striking moral, and is full of admonition and instruction. 1 We we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 2 shall shall AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 3 aux _ _ 3 follow follow VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 0 root _ _ 4 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 5 nmod:poss _ _ 5 steps step NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 6 , , PUNCT , _ 8 punct _ _ 7 and and CCONJ CC _ 8 cc _ _ 8 avail avail VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 conj _ _ 9 ourselves ourselves PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes 8 obj _ _ 10 of of ADP IN _ 12 case _ _ 11 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 12 nmod:poss _ _ 12 information information NOUN NN Number=Sing 8 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 15 punct _ _ 14 laboriously laboriously ADV RB _ 15 advmod _ _ 15 collected collect VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 12 acl _ _ 16 from from ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 various various ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 18 amod _ _ 18 sources source NOUN NNS Number=Plur 15 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 19 ; ; PUNCT : _ 25 punct _ _ 20 and and CCONJ CC _ 25 cc _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 22 truly truly ADV RB _ 25 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 24 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 25 det _ _ 25 story story NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 parataxis _ _ 26 of of ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 27 each each DET DT PronType=Tot 25 nmod _ _ 28 of of ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 actors actor NOUN NNS Number=Plur 27 nmod _ _ 31 in in ADP IN _ 36 case _ _ 32 this this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 36 nsubj _ _ 33 great great ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 amod _ _ 34 historical historical ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 36 amod _ _ 35 drama drama NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 compound _ _ 36 bears bear NOUN NNS Number=Plur 30 nmod _ _ 37 with with ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 38 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 36 nmod _ _ 39 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 41 nmod:poss _ _ 40 striking strike VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 41 amod _ _ 41 moral moral NOUN NN Number=Sing 36 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 42 , , PUNCT , _ 45 punct _ _ 43 and and CCONJ CC _ 45 cc _ _ 44 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 45 cop _ _ 45 full full ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 41 acl:relcl _ _ 46 of of ADP IN _ 47 case _ _ 47 admonition admonition NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 obl _ _ 48 and and CCONJ CC _ 49 cc _ _ 49 instruction instruction NOUN NN Number=Sing 47 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 50 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **follow** | shall | We | story's steps | | | | the story of each of the actors in great historical drama bears this with source source's striking moral *parataxis* | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent step=Theme | | 2 | **avail** | infinitive | We *not said here* | ourselves | | | | of story's information | tree rules | | 3 | **collect** | participle | | story's information *not said here* | | various sources | | laboriously *property* | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent from source=Source | | 4 | **strike** | gerund | | | | | | | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **is** | present | source's striking moral *not said here* | | | | | of admonition and instruction; full *property* | tree rules | | 6 | **step** | | story | | | | | | nom step «act transitive»: poss=agent | | 7 | **inform** | | story | | | | | | nom information «communication intransitive»: poss=agent | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 40](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77685/33/40/) - next →: [Chapter XIII., 1](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77685/34/1/) - ↑ back to [Chapter XII.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77685/33/)