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title: With such-like cautious preliminaries do the wary but credulous hist… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: With such-like cautious preliminaries do the wary but credulous historiographers of yore usher in a marvellous event of prophecy and enchantment, linked in ancient story with the fortunes of Don Roderick, but which modern doubters would fain hold up as an apocryphal tradition of Arabian origin. Who 
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Don Roderick Receives an Extraordinary Embassy., sentence 3

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With such-like cautious preliminaries do the wary but credulous historiographers of yore usher in a marvellous event of prophecy and enchantment, linked in ancient story with the fortunes of Don Roderick, but which modern doubters would fain hold up as an apocryphal tradition of Arabian origin.

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**Who acts:** like cautious preliminaries, modern doubters · **What happens:** do, link, fain, hold up · **To what, where:** wary historiographers, ancient story

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This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Don Roderick Receives an Extraordinary Embassy.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (like cautious preliminaries, modern doubters), 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:pg77685:7:3
# text = With such-like cautious preliminaries do the wary but credulous historiographers of yore usher in a marvellous event of prophecy and enchantment, linked in ancient story with the fortunes of Don Roderick, but which modern doubters would fain hold up as an apocryphal tradition of Arabian origin.
1	With	with	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
2	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	like	like	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
5	cautious	cautious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	preliminaries	preliminary	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
7	do	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	41	advcl	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
9	wary	wary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
10	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	credulous	credulous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	conj	_	_
12	historiographers	historiographer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	yore	yore	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	usher	usher	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	marvellous	marvellous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	event	event	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	prophecy	prophecy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	enchantment	enchantment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
25	linked	link	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	acl	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	ancient	ancient	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
29	with	with	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	fortunes	fortune	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nmod	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	Don	Don	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	_
34	Roderick	Roderick	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
36	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
37	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	41	obj	_	_
38	modern	modern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
39	doubters	doubter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	41	nsubj	_	_
40	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	41	aux	_	_
41	fain	fain	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
42	hold	hold	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	41	xcomp	_	_
43	up	up	ADP	RP	_	42	compound:prt	_	_
44	as	as	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
45	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
46	apocryphal	apocryphal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	47	amod	_	_
47	tradition	tradition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	obl	_	_
48	of	of	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
49	Arabian	Arabian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	50	amod	_	_
50	origin	origin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	41	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | present | like cautious preliminaries | the wary historiographers of yore usher in a marvellous event of prophecy and enchantment |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent historiographer=Eventuality |
| 2 | **link** | participle |  | the wary historiographers of yore usher in a marvellous event of prophecy and enchantment *not said here* |  | ancient story with the fortunes of Don |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **fain** | would | modern doubters |  |  |  |  | which *obj* | tree rules |
| 4 | **hold up** | infinitive | modern doubters *not said here* |  |  |  |  | as a apocryphal tradition of Arabian origin | vn support-15.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot |

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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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