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title: He built it of prodigious strength, and finished it with magic art,… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: He built it of prodigious strength, and finished it with magic art, shutting up within it a fearful secret, never to be penetrated without peril and disaster. Who acts: Libya. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Don Roderick Receives an Extraordinary Embassy., with
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Don Roderick Receives an Extraordinary Embassy., sentence 8

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He built it of prodigious strength, and finished it with magic art, shutting up within it a fearful secret, never to be penetrated without peril and disaster.

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**Who acts:** Libya · **What happens:** build, finish, shut up, not penetrate · **To what, where:** tower, fearful secret

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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 (Libya), 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:pg77685:7:8
# text = He built it of prodigious strength, and finished it with magic art, shutting up within it a fearful secret, never to be penetrated without peril and disaster.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	built	build	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	prodigious	prodigious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	strength	strength	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	finished	finish	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	_
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	magic	magic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	art	art	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	shutting	shut	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
16	up	up	ADP	RP	_	15	compound:prt	_	_
17	within	within	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obl	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	fearful	fearful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	secret	secret	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
23	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	26	advmod	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
25	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	aux:pass	_	_
26	penetrated	penetrate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	conj	_	_
27	without	without	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	peril	peril	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	disaster	disaster	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **build** | past | Libya | tower |  |  |  | of prodigious strength | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Product |
| 2 | **finish** | past | Libya *not said here* | tower |  |  |  | with magic art | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality PP.subeventuality»: agent=Affector it=Eventuality with art=Subeventuality |
| 3 | **shut up** | gerund | Libya *not said here* | a fearful secret |  |  |  | within tower | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent secret=Patient |
| 4 | **not** **penetrate** | to-infinitive · passive | Libya *not said here* |  |  |  |  | without peril and disaster | vn poke-19 «NP V NP» |

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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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