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title: When the nation had recovered in some degree from the effects of thi… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: When the nation had recovered in some degree from the effects of this astounding blow, or rather, had become accustomed to the tremendous reverse which it produced, and sage men sought to inquire and write the particulars, it was too late to ascertain them in their exact verity. Who acts: nation, sa
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Opening, sentence 10

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When the nation had recovered in some degree from the effects of this astounding blow, or rather, had become accustomed to the tremendous reverse which it produced, and sage men sought to inquire and write the particulars, it was too late to ascertain them in their exact verity.

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**Who acts:** nation, sage men, it · **What happens:** recover, become, accustom, produce, seek, inquire · **To what, where:** nation, degree, tremendous reverse, particulars, men, exact verity

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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 (nation, sage men, it), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg77685:1:10
# text = When the nation had recovered in some degree from the effects of this astounding blow, or rather, had become accustomed to the tremendous reverse which it produced, and sage men sought to inquire and write the particulars, it was too late to ascertain them in their exact verity.
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	5	mark	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	nation	nation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	recovered	recover	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	8	det	_	_
8	degree	degree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	from	from	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	effects	effect	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	15	det	_	_
14	astounding	astounding	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	blow	blow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
17	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
18	rather	rather	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
20	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	become	become	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	5	conj	_	_
22	accustomed	accustom	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	xcomp	_	_
23	to	to	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	tremendous	tremendous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	reverse	reverse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
27	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	29	obj	_	_
28	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
29	produced	produce	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
32	sage	sage	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	nsubj	_	_
34	sought	seek	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	parataxis	_	_
35	to	to	PART	TO	_	36	mark	_	_
36	inquire	inquire	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	34	xcomp	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
38	write	write	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	36	conj	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	particulars	particular	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	38	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
42	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	45	nsubj	_	_
43	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	45	cop	_	_
44	too	too	ADV	RB	_	45	advmod	_	_
45	late	late	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	parataxis	_	_
46	to	to	PART	TO	_	47	mark	_	_
47	ascertain	ascertain	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	45	csubj	_	_
48	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	47	obj	_	_
49	in	in	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
50	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	52	nmod:poss	_	_
51	exact	exact	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	52	amod	_	_
52	verity	verity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **recover** | past · perfect · passive |  | the nation |  | some degree |  | from the effects of this astounding blow | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: subject=Theme from effect=Source |
| 2 | **become** | past · perfect |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **accustom** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | to the tremendous reverse | tree rules |
| 4 | **produce** | past | nation | the tremendous reverse |  |  |  |  | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Result |
| 5 | **seek** | past | sage men |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **inquire** *speech: other* *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | sage men *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **write** | infinitive | sage men *not said here* | the particulars |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent particular=Theme |
| 8 | **is** | past | it |  |  |  |  | late *property* | tree rules |
| 9 | **ascertain** | to-infinitive |  | men *= man* |  | men's exact verity |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Topic |
| 10 | **effect** |  |  | this astounding blow |  |  |  |  | nom effect «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient |

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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.

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**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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