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title: He was advanced in life, but of a noble presence, and concealed his… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: He was advanced in life, but of a noble presence, and concealed his age by tinging his hair and beard with henna. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Chapter IX., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter IX., sentence 11

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He was advanced in life, but of a noble presence, and concealed his age by tinging his hair and beard with henna.

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**What happens:** advance, conceal, ting · **To what, where:** JULIAN, life, age, hair

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This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Chapter IX.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg77685:10:11
# text = He was advanced in life, but of a noble presence, and concealed his age by tinging his hair and beard with henna.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	advanced	advance	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
7	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	noble	noble	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	presence	presence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	concealed	conceal	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
15	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	age	age	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
18	tinging	ting	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	advcl	_	_
19	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	hair	hair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	beard	beard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	_
23	with	with	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	henna	henna	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **advance** | past · passive |  | JULIAN |  | life |  | of a noble presence | vn caused\_calibratable\_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient |
| 2 | **conceal** | past |  | JULIAN's age |  |  |  |  | vn concealment-16 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent age=Patient |
| 3 | **ting** | gerund |  | JULIAN's hair and beard |  |  |  | with henna | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location hair=Theme |

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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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