Legends of the conquest of Spain, Opening, sentence 14

Yet, from these apocryphal sources, the most legitimate and accredited Spanish histories have taken their rise, as pure rivers may be traced up to the fens and mantled pools of a morass.

Who acts: sources · What happens: accredit, take, trace up, mantle, rise · To what, where: Spanish histories, pure rivers, pools

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 (sources), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.

The tree

The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)

#	word	lemma	UPOS	features	head	relation
1	Yet	yet	CCONJ	_	10 legitimate	cc
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Yet	punct
3	from	from	ADP	_	6 sources	case
4	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	6 sources	det
5	apocryphal	apocryphal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 sources	amod
6	sources	source	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 legitimate	obl
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 sources	punct
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 legitimate	det
9	most	most	ADV	Degree=Sup	10 legitimate	advmod
10	legitimate	legitimate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 accredited	cc
12	accredited	accredit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 legitimate	conj
13	Spanish	Spanish	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 histories	amod
14	histories	history	NOUN	Number=Plur	16 taken	nsubj:pass
15	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 taken	aux
16	taken	take	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	12 accredited	ccomp
17	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	18 rise	nmod:poss
18	rise	rise	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 taken	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 traced	punct
20	as	as	SCONJ	_	25 traced	mark
21	pure	pure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 rivers	amod
22	rivers	river	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 traced	nsubj:pass
23	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	25 traced	aux
24	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	25 traced	aux:pass
25	traced	trace	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 taken	conj
26	up	up	ADP	_	25 traced	compound:prt
27	to	to	ADP	_	29 fens	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 fens	det
29	fens	fen	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 traced	obl
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 mantled	cc
31	mantled	mantle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 taken	conj
32	pools	pool	NOUN	Number=Plur	31 mantled	obj
33	of	of	ADP	_	35 morass	case
34	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	35 morass	det
35	morass	morass	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 pools	nmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 legitimate	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	accredit	past				tree rules
2	take	present · perfect · passive		Spanish histories	sources's rise obj	vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme rise=Destination
3	trace up	may · passive		pure rivers	to the fens	vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme
4	mantle	past		pools of a morass		vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent pool=Destination
6	rise		sources = source			nom rise «event intransitive»: poss=agent

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.

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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🌲 Legends of the conquest of Spain, Opening, sentence 14

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Pragmatics

Legends of the conquest of Spain, Opening, sentence 14