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title: Year after year, however, elapsed, and nothing was heard of Don Rode… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: Year after year, however, elapsed, and nothing was heard of Don Roderick; yet, like Sebastian of Portugal, and Arthur of England, his name continued to be a rallying point for popular faith, and the mystery of his end to give rise to romantic fables. Who acts: name, mystery, England. A sentence of «
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, The Field of Battle After the Defeat.—the Fate of Roderick., sentence 32

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Year after year, however, elapsed, and nothing was heard of Don Roderick; yet, like Sebastian of Portugal, and Arthur of England, his name continued to be a rallying point for popular faith, and the mystery of his end to give rise to romantic fables.

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**Who acts:** name, mystery, England · **What happens:** elapse, hear, continue, be, give, name · **To what, where:** nothing, rallying point, rise, romantic fables

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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 (name, mystery, England), 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:pg77685:19:32
# text = Year after year, however, elapsed, and nothing was heard of Don Roderick; yet, like Sebastian of Portugal, and Arthur of England, his name continued to be a rallying point for popular faith, and the mystery of his end to give rise to romantic fables.
1	Year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl:unmarked	_	_
2	after	after	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	however	however	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	elapsed	elapse	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	12	nsubj:pass	_	_
11	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux:pass	_	_
12	heard	hear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	conj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	Don	Don	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
15	Roderick	Roderick	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	like	like	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	Sebastian	Sebastian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl:agent	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	Portugal	Portugal	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	Arthur	Arthur	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	England	England	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
29	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	_
31	continued	continue	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	parataxis	_	_
32	to	to	PART	TO	_	36	mark	_	_
33	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	36	cop	_	_
34	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
35	rallying	rallying	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	compound	_	_
36	point	point	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	ccomp	_	_
37	for	for	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	popular	popular	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
39	faith	faith	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
41	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	48	cc	_	_
42	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
43	mystery	mystery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	nsubj	_	_
44	of	of	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
45	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	46	nmod:poss	_	_
46	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	nmod	_	_
47	to	to	PART	TO	_	48	mark	_	_
48	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	_
49	rise	rise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	obj	_	_
50	to	to	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
51	romantic	romantic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	52	amod	_	_
52	fables	fable	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	48	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **elapse** | participle |  |  |  |  | yet; year | Sebastian of Portugal and Arthur of England *obl:agent*; however *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **hear** | past · passive |  | nothing |  |  |  | of Don | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Stimulus |
| 3 | **continue** | past | England's name |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **is a** | to-infinitive | England's name *not said here* | a rallying point |  |  |  | for popular faith | tree rules |
| 5 | **give** | to-infinitive | the mystery of mystery's end | rise | romantic fables |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent rise=Theme to fable=Recipient |
| 6 | **name** |  | England |  |  |  |  |  | nom name «communication transitive»: 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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