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title: Spain is virtually a land of poetry and romance, where every-day lif… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: Spain is virtually a land of poetry and romance, where every-day life partakes of adventure, and where the least agitation or excitement carries every thing up into extravagant enterprise and daring exploit. Who acts: Spain, day life, least agitation. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain»
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Opening, sentence 17

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Spain is virtually a land of poetry and romance, where every-day life partakes of adventure, and where the least agitation or excitement carries every thing up into extravagant enterprise and daring exploit.

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**Who acts:** Spain, day life, least agitation · **What happens:** be, partake, carry up, dare · **To what, where:** land, thing, extravagant enterprise, exploit

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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 (Spain, day life, least agitation), 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:pg77685:1:17
# text = Spain is virtually a land of poetry and romance, where every-day life partakes of adventure, and where the least agitation or excitement carries every thing up into extravagant enterprise and daring exploit.
1	Spain	Spain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	virtually	virtually	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	poetry	poetry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	romance	romance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
11	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	16	advmod	_	_
12	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	14	det	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	partakes	partake	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	adventure	adventure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
21	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	27	advmod	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	least	least	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	24	amod	_	_
24	agitation	agitation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
25	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	excitement	excitement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	_
27	carries	carry	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
28	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	29	det	_	_
29	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
30	up	up	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
31	into	into	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	extravagant	extravagant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	enterprise	enterprise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
35	daring	dare	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	33	conj	_	_
36	exploit	exploit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | Spain | a land and romance |  |  |  | of poetry; romance *conj*; virtually *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **partake** | present | day life |  |  |  |  | of adventure | tree rules |
| 3 | **carry up** | present | the least agitation or excitement | every thing |  | extravagant enterprise |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Theme |
| 4 | **dare** | gerund | the least agitation or excitement *not said here* | exploit |  |  |  |  | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent exploit=Recipient |

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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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