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title: A light had burned throughout the night in the tent of the king, and… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: A light had burned throughout the night in the tent of the king, and anxious thoughts and dismal visions troubled his repose. Who acts: anxious thoughts, king. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Last Day of the Battle., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics 
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Last Day of the Battle., sentence 1

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A light had burned throughout the night in the tent of the king, and anxious thoughts and dismal visions troubled his repose.

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**Who acts:** anxious thoughts, king · **What happens:** burn, trouble, repose · **To what, where:** light, tent, repose

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This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Last Day of the Battle.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (anxious thoughts, king), 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:pg77685:18:1
# text = A light had burned throughout the night in the tent of the king, and anxious thoughts and dismal visions troubled his repose.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	burned	burn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	throughout	throughout	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	tent	tent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
16	anxious	anxious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	thoughts	thought	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nsubj	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	dismal	dismal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	visions	vision	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	conj	_	_
21	troubled	trouble	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
22	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	repose	repose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **burn** | past · perfect · passive |  | a light |  | the tent of the king | night |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **trouble** | past | anxious thoughts and dismal visions | king's repose |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus repose=Experiencer |
| 3 | **repose** |  | king |  |  |  |  |  | nom repose «act intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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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