Legends of the conquest of Spain, The Cave of Hercules., sentence 13

Of all the marvels, however, of this ancient, picturesque, romantic, and necromantic city, none in modern times surpass the cave of Hercules, if we may take the account of Don Pedro de Roxas for authentic.

Who acts: none, we · What happens: surpass, take, account · To what, where: cave, account, Don

This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, The Cave of Hercules.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (none, we), 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	Of	of	ADP	_	4 marvels	case
2	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	4 marvels	det:predet
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 marvels	det
4	marvels	marvel	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 surpass	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 marvels	punct
6	however	however	ADV	_	24 surpass	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 however	punct
8	of	of	ADP	_	18 city	case
9	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	18 city	nsubj
10	ancient	ancient	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 city	amod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 picturesque	punct
12	picturesque	picturesque	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 ancient	conj
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 romantic	punct
14	romantic	romantic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 ancient	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 city	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 city	cc
17	necromantic	necromantic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 city	amod
18	city	city	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 surpass	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 city	punct
20	none	none	PRON	PronType=Neg	24 surpass	nsubj
21	in	in	ADP	_	23 times	case
22	modern	modern	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 times	amod
23	times	time	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 none	nmod
24	surpass	surpass	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 cave	det
26	cave	cave	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 surpass	obj
27	of	of	ADP	_	28 Hercules	case
28	Hercules	Hercules	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 cave	nmod
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 take	punct
30	if	if	SCONJ	_	33 take	mark
31	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	33 take	nsubj
32	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 take	aux
33	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	24 surpass	conj
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 account	det
35	account	account	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 take	obj
36	of	of	ADP	_	37 Don	case
37	Don	Don	PROPN	Number=Sing	35 account	nmod
38	Pedro	Pedro	PROPN	Number=Sing	37 Don	flat
39	de	de	PROPN	Number=Sing	37 Don	flat
40	Roxas	Roxas	PROPN	Number=Sing	37 Don	flat
41	for	for	ADP	_	42 authentic	case
42	authentic	authentic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 take	obl
43	.	.	PUNCT	_	24 surpass	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	surpass	infinitive	none in modern times	the cave of Hercules	of all marvels; of ancient necromantic city this; however property	vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot cave=Theme
2	take a condition, not said to happen	may	we	the account of Don	for authentic	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent account=Theme for authentic=Beneficiary
3	account			Don		nom account «communication 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, The Cave of Hercules., sentence 13

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Legends of the conquest of Spain, The Cave of Hercules., sentence 13