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title: The Spanish accounts, on the contrary, are full of the marvellous; f… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: The Spanish accounts, on the contrary, are full of the marvellous; for there were no greater romancers than the monkish chroniclers. Who acts: Spanish accounts, greater romancers. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Fate of Abdalasis and Exilona.—death of Muza., wi
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Fate of Abdalasis and Exilona.—death of Muza., sentence 66

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The Spanish accounts, on the contrary, are full of the marvellous; for there were no greater romancers than the monkish chroniclers.

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**Who acts:** Spanish accounts, greater romancers · **What happens:** be

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This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Fate of Abdalasis and Exilona.—death of Muza.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Spanish accounts, greater romancers), 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:pg77685:38:67
# text = The Spanish accounts, on the contrary, are full of the marvellous; for there were no greater romancers than the monkish chroniclers.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Spanish	Spanish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	accounts	account	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	contrary	contrary	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
9	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
10	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	marvellous	marvellous	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
15	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
16	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	17	expl	_	_
17	were	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
18	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	20	det	_	_
19	greater	great	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	20	amod	_	_
20	romancers	romancer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	_
21	than	than	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	monkish	monkish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	chroniclers	chronicler	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | the Spanish accounts on the contrary |  |  |  |  | of the marvellous; full *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** | past | no greater romancers than the monkish chroniclers |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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