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Legends of the conquest of Spain, Opening, sentence 16

To discard, however, every thing wild and marvellous in this portion of Spanish history, is to discard some of its most beautiful, instructive, and national features; it is to judge of Spain by the standard of probability suited to tamer and more prosaic countries.

Who acts: history · What happens: be, suit, feature · To what, where: standard

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 (history), 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

markadvclpunctadvmodpunctdetnsubjccompccconjcasedetoblcaseamodnmodpunctcopmarkobjcasenmod:possadvmodamodpunctconjpunctccamodnmodpunctnsubjcopmarkconjcaseoblcasedetoblcasenmodaclcaseoblccadvmodamodconjpunctrootToPARTdiscardNOUN,PUNCThoweverADV,PUNCTeveryDETthingNOUNwildADJandCCONJmarvellousADJinADPthisDETportionNOUNofADPSpanishADJhistoryNOUN,PUNCTisAUXtoPARTdiscardVERBsomeDETofADPitsPRONmostADVbeautifulADJ,PUNCTinstructiveADJ,PUNCTandCCONJnationalADJfeaturesNOUN;PUNCTitPRONisAUXtoPARTjudgeVERBofADPSpainPROPNbyADPtheDETstandardNOUNofADPprobabilityNOUNsuitedVERBtoADPtamerNOUNandCCONJmoreADVprosaicADJcountriesNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1TotoPART_2 discardmark
2discarddiscardNOUNNumber=Sing20 discardadvcl
3,,PUNCT_2 discardpunct
4howeverhoweverADV_8 wildadvmod
5,,PUNCT_4 howeverpunct
6everyeveryDETPronType=Tot7 thingdet
7thingthingNOUNNumber=Sing8 wildnsubj
8wildwildADJDegree=Pos2 discardccomp
9andandCCONJ_10 marvellouscc
10marvellousmarvellousADJDegree=Pos8 wildconj
11ininADP_13 portioncase
12thisthisDETNumber=Sing PronType=Dem13 portiondet
13portionportionNOUNNumber=Sing8 wildobl
14ofofADP_16 historycase
15SpanishSpanishADJDegree=Pos16 historyamod
16historyhistoryNOUNNumber=Sing13 portionnmod
17,,PUNCT_2 discardpunct
18isbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin20 discardcop
19totoPART_20 discardmark
20discarddiscardVERBMood=Imp VerbForm=Finrootroot
21somesomeDETPronType=Ind20 discardobj
22ofofADP_31 featurescase
23itsitsPRONCase=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs31 featuresnmod:poss
24mostmostADVDegree=Sup25 beautifuladvmod
25beautifulbeautifulADJDegree=Pos31 featuresamod
26,,PUNCT_27 instructivepunct
27instructiveinstructiveADJDegree=Pos25 beautifulconj
28,,PUNCT_31 featurespunct
29andandCCONJ_31 featurescc
30nationalnationalADJDegree=Pos31 featuresamod
31featuresfeatureNOUNNumber=Plur21 somenmod
32;;PUNCT_36 judgepunct
33ititPRONCase=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs36 judgensubj
34isbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin36 judgecop
35totoPART_36 judgemark
36judgejudgeVERBVerbForm=Inf20 discardconj
37ofofADP_38 Spaincase
38SpainSpainPROPNNumber=Sing36 judgeobl
39bybyADP_41 standardcase
40thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art41 standarddet
41standardstandardNOUNNumber=Sing36 judgeobl
42ofofADP_43 probabilitycase
43probabilityprobabilityNOUNNumber=Sing41 standardnmod
44suitedsuitVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass41 standardacl
45totoADP_46 tamercase
46tamertamerNOUNNumber=Sing44 suitedobl
47andandCCONJ_50 countriescc
48moremoreADVDegree=Cmp49 prosaicadvmod
49prosaicprosaicADJDegree=Pos50 countriesamod
50countriescountryNOUNNumber=Plur46 tamerconj
51..PUNCT_20 discardpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1ispresentdiscard advcl; discard propertytree rules
2ispresenthistoryof Spain; by the standard of probability; judge propertytree rules
3suitparticiplethe standard of probability not said hereto tamer and prosaic countriestree rules
4featurehistorynom feature «cognition transitive»: 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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