🌲 Legends of the conquest of Spain, Story of the Marvellous and Portentous Tower., sentence 3

Of this renowned edifice marvels are related by the ancient Arabian and Spanish chroniclers; “and I doubt much,” adds the venerable Agpaida, “whether many readers will not consider the whole as a cunningly devised fable, sprung from an oriental imagination; but it is not for me to reject a fact which is recorded by all those writers who are the fathers of our national history: a fact, too, which is as well attested as most of the remarkable events in the story of Don Roderick.

Who acts: ancient Arabian chroniclers, venerable Agpaida, many readers, Agpaida, writers, most · What happens: relate, doubt, add, not consider, devise, spring · To what, where: whole, cunningly devised fable, oriental imagination, fact, fathers · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Story of the Marvellous and Portentous Tower.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (ancient Arabian chroniclers, venerable Agpaida, many readers, Agpaida), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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