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title: On every side his eye revelled on the ruin of the country, on the wr… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: On every side his eye revelled on the ruin of the country, on the wrecks of haughty Spain. Who acts: eye. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, The Field of Battle After the Defeat.—the Fate of Roderick., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, The Field of Battle After the Defeat.—the Fate of Roderick., sentence 4

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On every side his eye revelled on the ruin of the country, on the wrecks of haughty Spain.

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**Who acts:** eye · **What happens:** revell, ruin, wreck · **To what, where:** side, country, haughty 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 (eye), 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:pg77685:19:4
# text = On every side his eye revelled on the ruin of the country, on the wrecks of haughty Spain.
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	3	det	_	_
3	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	eye	eye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	revelled	revell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	on	on	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	ruin	ruin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	on	on	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	wrecks	wreck	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	haughty	haughty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	Spain	Spain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **revell** | participle | Christian's eye |  |  | every side |  | on the ruin of the country; on the wrecks of haughty Spain | tree rules |
| 2 | **ruin** |  |  | the country |  |  |  |  | nom ruin «state transitive»: of=patient |
| 3 | **wreck** |  |  | haughty Spain |  |  |  |  | nom wreck «state 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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