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title: It was glorious to behold the old Gothic valour shining forth in thi… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: It was glorious to behold the old Gothic valour shining forth in this hour of fearful trial. Who acts: It, old Gothic valour. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Last Day of the Battle., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Last Day of the Battle., sentence 37

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It was glorious to behold the old Gothic valour shining forth in this hour of fearful trial.

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**Who acts:** It, old Gothic valour · **What happens:** be, behold, shine · **To what, where:** old Gothic valour

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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 (It, old Gothic valour), 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:pg77685:18:37
# text = It was glorious to behold the old Gothic valour shining forth in this hour of fearful trial.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	glorious	glorious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	behold	behold	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
7	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
8	Gothic	gothic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	valour	valour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
10	shining	shine	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	acl	_	_
11	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	14	det	_	_
14	hour	hour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	fearful	fearful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	trial	trial	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | It |  |  |  |  | glorious *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **behold** | to-infinitive |  | the old Gothic valour |  |  |  |  | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer valour=Stimulus |
| 3 | **shine** | gerund | the old Gothic valour *not said here* |  |  |  | hour | forth *property* | vn light\_emission-43.1 «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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