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title: Certainly it was a night of fearful suspense, and Moslem and Christi… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: Certainly it was a night of fearful suspense, and Moslem and Christian looked forward with doubt to the fortune of the coming day. Who acts: chieftain. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Chapter XI., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter XI., sentence 27

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Certainly it was a night of fearful suspense, and Moslem and Christian looked forward with doubt to the fortune of the coming day.

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**Who acts:** chieftain · **What happens:** be, look, come · **To what, where:** night

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This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Chapter XI.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (chieftain), 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:pg77685:12:27
# text = Certainly it was a night of fearful suspense, and Moslem and Christian looked forward with doubt to the fortune of the coming day.
1	Certainly	certainly	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl:unmarked	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	fearful	fearful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	suspense	suspense	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	Moslem	Moslem	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	advcl	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	Christian	Christian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	_
14	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	forward	forward	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
16	with	with	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	doubt	doubt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	fortune	fortune	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	coming	come	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	24	amod	_	_
24	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | chieftain | a night |  |  |  | of fearful suspense; certainly *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **look** | past |  |  |  |  |  | with doubt; to the fortune of the coming day; forward *property* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to fortune=Theme |
| 3 | **come** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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