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title: Whether he went down amidst the storm of battle, and atoned for his… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: Whether he went down amidst the storm of battle, and atoned for his sins and errors by a patriot grave, or whether he survived to repent of them in hermit exile, must remain matter of conjecture and dispute. Who acts: mystery, battle, conjecture. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by W
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, The Field of Battle After the Defeat.—the Fate of Roderick., sentence 20

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Whether he went down amidst the storm of battle, and atoned for his sins and errors by a patriot grave, or whether he survived to repent of them in hermit exile, must remain matter of conjecture and dispute.

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**Who acts:** mystery, battle, conjecture · **What happens:** go down, atone, survive, repent, remain, storm · **To what, where:** hermit exile, matter

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This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, The Field of Battle After the Defeat.—the Fate of Roderick.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (mystery, battle, conjecture), 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:pg77685:19:20
# text = Whether he went down amidst the storm of battle, and atoned for his sins and errors by a patriot grave, or whether he survived to repent of them in hermit exile, must remain matter of conjecture and dispute.
1	Whether	whether	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	down	down	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	amidst	amidst	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	storm	storm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	battle	battle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	atoned	atone	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
13	for	for	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	sins	sin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	errors	error	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	conj	_	_
18	by	by	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	patriot	patriot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	grave	grave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
23	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
24	whether	whether	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
25	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	survived	survive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
27	to	to	PART	TO	_	28	mark	_	_
28	repent	repent	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	xcomp	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	obl	_	_
31	in	in	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	hermit	hermit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	compound	_	_
33	exile	exile	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
35	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	36	aux	_	_
36	remain	remain	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	conj	_	_
37	matter	matter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	xcomp	_	_
38	of	of	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	conjecture	conjecture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nmod	_	_
40	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
41	dispute	dispute	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go down** | past | mystery |  |  |  |  | amidst the storm of battle; down *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 2 | **atone** | past | mystery *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for mystery's sins and errors; by a patriot grave | tree rules |
| 3 | **survive** | past | mystery |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **repent** | to-infinitive | mystery *not said here* |  |  | hermit exile |  | of errors *= error* | tree rules |
| 5 | **remain** | must | mystery *not said here* | matter of conjecture and dispute |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **storm** |  | battle |  |  |  |  |  | nom storm «phenomenon intransitive»: of=agent |
| 7 | **matter** |  | conjecture |  |  |  |  |  | nom matter «cognition intransitive»: of=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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