Legends of the conquest of Spain, Don Roderick Receives an Extraordinary Embassy., sentence 3
With such-like cautious preliminaries do the wary but credulous historiographers of yore usher in a marvellous event of prophecy and enchantment, linked in ancient story with the fortunes of Don Roderick, but which modern doubters would fain hold up as an apocryphal tradition of Arabian origin.
Who acts: like cautious preliminaries, modern doubters · What happens: do, link, fain, hold up · To what, where: wary historiographers, ancient story
This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Don Roderick Receives an Extraordinary Embassy.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (like cautious preliminaries, modern doubters), 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 | With | with | SCONJ | _ | 7 do | mark |
| 2 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 like | amod |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 such | punct |
| 4 | like | like | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 preliminaries | amod |
| 5 | cautious | cautious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 preliminaries | amod |
| 6 | preliminaries | preliminary | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 do | nsubj |
| 7 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 41 fain | advcl |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 historiographers | det |
| 9 | wary | wary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 historiographers | amod |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 11 credulous | cc |
| 11 | credulous | credulous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 wary | conj |
| 12 | historiographers | historiographer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 do | obj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 usher | case |
| 14 | yore | yore | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 usher | amod |
| 15 | usher | usher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 historiographers | nmod |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 event | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 event | det |
| 18 | marvellous | marvellous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 event | amod |
| 19 | event | event | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 usher | nmod |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 prophecy | case |
| 21 | prophecy | prophecy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 event | nmod |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 enchantment | cc |
| 23 | enchantment | enchantment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 event | conj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 linked | punct |
| 25 | linked | link | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 historiographers | acl |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 story | case |
| 27 | ancient | ancient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 story | amod |
| 28 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 linked | obl |
| 29 | with | with | ADP | _ | 31 fortunes | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 fortunes | det |
| 31 | fortunes | fortune | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 story | nmod |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 Don | case |
| 33 | Don | Don | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 fortunes | nmod |
| 34 | Roderick | Roderick | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 Don | flat |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 fain | punct |
| 36 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 41 fain | cc |
| 37 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 41 fain | obj |
| 38 | modern | modern | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 doubters | amod |
| 39 | doubters | doubter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 41 fain | nsubj |
| 40 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 41 fain | aux |
| 41 | fain | fain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 42 | hold | hold | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 41 fain | xcomp |
| 43 | up | up | ADP | _ | 42 hold | compound:prt |
| 44 | as | as | ADP | _ | 47 tradition | case |
| 45 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 47 tradition | det |
| 46 | apocryphal | apocryphal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 47 tradition | amod |
| 47 | tradition | tradition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 hold | obl |
| 48 | of | of | ADP | _ | 50 origin | case |
| 49 | Arabian | Arabian | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 50 origin | amod |
| 50 | origin | origin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 tradition | nmod |
| 51 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 41 fain | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | present | like cautious preliminaries | the wary historiographers of yore usher in a marvellous event of prophecy and enchantment | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent historiographer=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | link | participle | the wary historiographers of yore usher in a marvellous event of prophecy and enchantment not said here | ancient story with the fortunes of Don | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | fain | would | modern doubters | which obj | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | hold up | infinitive | modern doubters not said here | as a apocryphal tradition of Arabian origin | vn support-15.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot |
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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