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title: This tradition was fondly cherished by many, who clung to the belief… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: This tradition was fondly cherished by many, who clung to the belief in the existence of their monarch as their main hope for the redemption of Spain. Who acts: monarch, mountains. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, The Field of Battle After the Defeat.—the Fate o
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, The Field of Battle After the Defeat.—the Fate of Roderick., sentence 30

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This tradition was fondly cherished by many, who clung to the belief in the existence of their monarch as their main hope for the redemption of Spain.

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**Who acts:** monarch, mountains · **What happens:** cherish, cling, exist, hope, redeem · **To what, where:** tradition, existence, Spain

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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 (monarch, mountains), 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:pg77685:19:30
# text = This tradition was fondly cherished by many, who clung to the belief in the existence of their monarch as their main hope for the redemption of Spain.
1	This	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	tradition	tradition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
4	fondly	fondly	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	cherished	cherish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	by	by	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	10	nsubj	_	_
10	clung	cling	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	belief	belief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	existence	existence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	monarch	monarch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
20	as	as	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
22	main	main	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	hope	hope	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
24	for	for	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	redemption	redemption	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	Spain	Spain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cherish** | past · passive |  | this tradition |  |  |  | by many; fondly *property* | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Stimulus |
| 2 | **cling** | past |  |  |  | the existence of mountains's monarch |  | to the belief; as mountains's main hope for the redemption of Spain; who *nsubj* | vn cling-22.5 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme to belief=Co-Theme |
| 3 | **exist** |  | mountains's monarch |  |  |  |  |  | nom existence «state intransitive»: of=agent |
| 4 | **hope** |  | mountains *= mountain* |  |  |  |  | for the redemption of Spain | nom hope «feeling intransitive»: poss=agent for=obl |
| 5 | **redeem** |  |  | Spain |  |  |  |  | nom redemption «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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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