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title: This singular tower was round, and of great height and grandeur; ere… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: This singular tower was round, and of great height and grandeur; erected upon a lofty rock, and surrounded by crags and precipices. Who acts: singular tower. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Story of the Marvellous and Portentous Tower., with its dependency tree
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Story of the Marvellous and Portentous Tower., sentence 7

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This singular tower was round, and of great height and grandeur; erected upon a lofty rock, and surrounded by crags and precipices.

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**Who acts:** singular tower · **What happens:** be, erect, surround

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This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Story of the Marvellous and Portentous Tower.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (singular tower), 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:pg77685:8:7
# text = This singular tower was round, and of great height and grandeur; erected upon a lofty rock, and surrounded by crags and precipices.
1	This	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
2	singular	singular	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	tower	tower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
5	round	round	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	height	height	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	grandeur	grandeur	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
14	erected	erect	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	_
15	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	lofty	lofty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	rock	rock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	surrounded	surround	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	_
22	by	by	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	crags	crag	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl:agent	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	precipices	precipice	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | this singular tower |  |  |  |  | great height and grandeur *conj*; round *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **erect** | participle | this singular tower *not said here* |  |  |  |  | upon a lofty rock | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **surround** | participle | this singular tower *not said here* |  |  |  |  | crags and precipices *obl:agent* | vn contiguous\_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: 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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