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title: He has thought proper to throw these records into the form of legend… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: He has thought proper to throw these records into the form of legends, not claiming for them the authenticity of sober history, yet giving nothing that has not historical foundation. Who acts: AUTHOR. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Opening, with its dependency
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Opening, sentence 22

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He has thought proper to throw these records into the form of legends, not claiming for them the authenticity of sober history, yet giving nothing that has not historical foundation.

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**Who acts:** AUTHOR · **What happens:** think, throw, not claim, give, have, form · **To what, where:** records, form, authenticity, nothing, historical foundation, legends

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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 (AUTHOR), 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:pg77685:1:22
# text = He has thought proper to throw these records into the form of legends, not claiming for them the authenticity of sober history, yet giving nothing that has not historical foundation.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	thought	think	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	proper	properly	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	throw	throw	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
7	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	8	det	_	_
8	records	record	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
9	into	into	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	form	form	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	legends	legend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	16	advmod	_	_
16	claiming	claim	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
17	for	for	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obl	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	authenticity	authenticity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	sober	sober	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	history	history	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	yet	yet	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	giving	give	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	conj	_	_
27	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	26	obj	_	_
28	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	29	nsubj	_	_
29	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	acl:relcl	_	_
30	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	31	advmod	_	_
31	historical	historical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	foundation	foundation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **think** *speech: other* | present · perfect | AUTHOR |  |  |  |  | properly *property* | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **throw** | to-infinitive | AUTHOR *not said here* | this records |  |  |  | into the form of legends *result* | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer record=Theme into form=Result |
| 3 | **not** **claim** *speech: other* | gerund | AUTHOR *not said here* | the authenticity of sober history |  |  |  | for LEGENDS *= legend* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent authenticity=Topic |
| 4 | **give** | gerund | AUTHOR *not said here* | nothing |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Theme |
| 5 | **have** | present |  | historical foundation |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent foundation=Patient |
| 6 | **form** |  |  | legends |  |  |  |  | nom form «communication 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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