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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Of the Ancient Inhabitants of Spain.—of the Misrule of Witiza the Wicked., sentence 25

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One of them, named Favila, duke of Cantabria, he put to death, and would have inflicted the same fate upon his son Pelayo, but that the youth was beyond his reach, being preserved by Providence for the future salvation of Spain.

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**Who acts:** beginning, youth, Providence · **What happens:** name, put, inflict, be, preserve, salve · **To what, where:** Favila, same fate, reach, One, Spain

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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 (beginning, youth, Providence), 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:pg77685:2:25
# text = One of them, named Favila, duke of Cantabria, he put to death, and would have inflicted the same fate upon his son Pelayo, but that the youth was beyond his reach, being preserved by Providence for the future salvation of Spain.
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	named	name	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	conj	_	_
6	Favila	Favila	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	duke	duke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Cantabria	Cantabria	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	put	put	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
18	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
19	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	aux	_	_
20	inflicted	inflict	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	1	conj	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	fate	fate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
24	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
27	Pelayo	Pelayo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
29	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
30	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	36	mark	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	youth	youth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nsubj	_	_
33	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	36	cop	_	_
34	beyond	beyond	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	36	nmod:poss	_	_
36	reach	reach	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
38	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	39	aux:pass	_	_
39	preserved	preserve	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	36	acl	_	_
40	by	by	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
41	Providence	Providence	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	39	obl	_	_
42	for	for	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
43	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
44	future	future	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	45	amod	_	_
45	salvation	salvation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obl	_	_
46	of	of	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
47	Spain	Spain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	45	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **name** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | Favila *xcomp* | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **put** | past | beginning | Favila *not said here* |  |  |  | to death | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent favila=Goal |
| 3 | **inflict** | would · perfect |  | the same fate |  |  |  | upon beginning's son | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** | past | the youth |  |  |  | beginning | beyond beginning's reach | tree rules |
| 5 | **preserve** | gerund · passive | Providence | beginning's reach *not said here* |  |  |  | for the future salvation of Spain | vn defend-72.3 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **salve** |  |  | Spain |  |  |  |  | nom salvation «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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