Legends of the conquest of Spain, Opening, sentence 7

As in the memorable story of the Fall of Troy, we have to make out, as well as we can, the veritable details through the mists of poetic fiction; yet poetry has so combined itself with, and lent its magic colouring to, every fact, that to strip it away, would be to reduce the story to a meagre skeleton, and rob it of all its charms.

Who acts: we, fact · What happens: have, make out, combine, lend, strip away, be · To what, where: poetry, magic colouring, fact, poetic fiction

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 (we, fact), 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	As	as	ADP	_	5 story	case
2	in	in	ADP	_	5 story	case
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 story	det
4	memorable	memorable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 story	amod
5	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 have	obl
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 Fall	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Fall	det
8	Fall	fall	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 story	nmod
9	of	of	ADP	_	10 Troy	case
10	Troy	Troy	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 Fall	nmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	5 story	punct
12	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 have	nsubj
13	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
14	to	to	PART	_	15 make	mark
15	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 have	xcomp
16	out	out	ADP	_	15 make	compound:prt
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 can	punct
18	as	as	ADV	ExtPos=CCONJ	22 can	cc
19	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	18 as	fixed
20	as	as	SCONJ	_	22 can	mark
21	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 can	nsubj
22	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 have	advcl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 details	punct
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 details	det
25	veritable	veritable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 details	amod
26	details	detail	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 can	obl
27	through	through	ADP	_	29 mists	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 mists	det
29	mists	mist	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 details	nmod
30	of	of	ADP	_	32 fiction	case
31	poetic	poetic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 fiction	amod
32	fiction	fiction	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 mists	nmod
33	;	;	PUNCT	_	38 combined	punct
34	yet	yet	CCONJ	_	38 combined	cc
35	poetry	poetry	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 combined	nsubj:pass
36	has	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	38 combined	aux
37	so	so	ADV	_	38 combined	advmod
38	combined	combine	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	13 have	conj
39	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	38 combined	obj
40	with	with	ADP	_	38 combined	obl
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 lent	punct
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 lent	cc
43	lent	lend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 combined	parataxis
44	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	46 colouring	nmod:poss
45	magic	magic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	46 colouring	amod
46	colouring	colouring	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 lent	obj
47	to	to	PART	_	43 lent	xcomp
48	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 fact	punct
49	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	50 fact	det
50	fact	fact	NOUN	Number=Sing	61 reduce	nsubj
51	,	,	PUNCT	_	54 strip	punct
52	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	54 strip	nsubj
53	to	to	PART	_	54 strip	mark
54	strip	strip	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	50 fact	acl
55	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	54 strip	obj
56	away	away	ADV	_	54 strip	compound:prt
57	,	,	PUNCT	_	54 strip	punct
58	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	61 reduce	aux
59	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	61 reduce	cop
60	to	to	PART	_	61 reduce	mark
61	reduce	reduce	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	43 lent	parataxis
62	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	63 story	det
63	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	61 reduce	obj
64	to	to	ADP	_	67 skeleton	case
65	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	67 skeleton	det
66	meagre	meagre	NOUN	Number=Sing	67 skeleton	compound
67	skeleton	skeleton	NOUN	Number=Sing	61 reduce	obl
68	,	,	PUNCT	_	70 rob	punct
69	and	and	CCONJ	_	70 rob	cc
70	rob	rob	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 have	conj
71	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	70 rob	obj
72	of	of	ADP	_	75 charms	case
73	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	75 charms	det:predet
74	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	75 charms	nmod:poss
75	charms	charm	NOUN	Number=Plur	70 rob	obl
76	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 have	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	have	present	we		as the memorable story of the Fall of Troy	tree rules
2	make out	to-infinitive	we not said here			vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer
3	combine	present · perfect · passive		poetry		tree rules
4	lend	past		poetry's magic colouring		vn give-13.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent colouring=Theme
5	strip away	to-infinitive	every fact	fact		vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient
6	is	would	every fact		to a meagre skeleton; the story obj; reduce property	tree rules
7	rob	infinitive	we not said here	fact	of poetry's charms	vn rob-10.6.4 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent it=Theme of charm=Source
8	mist			poetic fiction		nom mist «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient

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 7

The tree

Pragmatics

Legends of the conquest of Spain, Opening, sentence 7