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title: For two centuries and a half the Gothic power remained unshaken, and… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: For two centuries and a half the Gothic power remained unshaken, and the sceptre was wielded by twenty-five successive kings. Who acts: Gothic power, five successive kings. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Of the Ancient Inhabitants of Spain.—of the Misrule of W
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Of the Ancient Inhabitants of Spain.—of the Misrule of Witiza the Wicked., sentence 12

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For two centuries and a half the Gothic power remained unshaken, and the sceptre was wielded by twenty-five successive kings.

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**Who acts:** Gothic power, five successive kings · **What happens:** remain, wield · **To what, where:** sceptre

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This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Of the Ancient Inhabitants of Spain.—of the Misrule of Witiza the Wicked.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Gothic power, five successive kings), 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:pg77685:2:12
# text = For two centuries and a half the Gothic power remained unshaken, and the sceptre was wielded by twenty-five successive kings.
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	centuries	century	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	half	half	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing|NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac	3	conj	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	Gothic	gothic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	remained	remain	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	unshaken	unshaken	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	sceptre	sceptre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj:pass	_	_
16	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux:pass	_	_
17	wielded	wield	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	conj	_	_
18	by	by	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
19	twenty	twenty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	21	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	23	nummod	_	_
22	successive	successive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	kings	king	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **remain** | past | the Gothic power |  |  |  | century | unshaken *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **wield** | past · passive | five successive kings | the sceptre |  |  |  |  | vn hold-15.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=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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