🌲 Legends of the conquest of Spain, Opening, sentence 13

Hence the earliest chronicles which treat of the downfall of Spain are apt to be tinctured with those saintly miracles which savour of the pious labours of the cloister, or those fanciful fictions that betray their Arabian authors.

Who acts: earliest chronicles, fanciful fictions · What happens: treat, be, tincture, betray, savour · To what, where: Arabian authors, pious labours

This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Opening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (earliest chronicles, fanciful fictions), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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Pragmatics

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