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title: While thus the ancient martial fire of the nation was extinguished,… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: While thus the ancient martial fire of the nation was extinguished, its morals likewise were corrupted. Who acts: ancient martial fire. 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., with its dependenc
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Of the Ancient Inhabitants of Spain.—of the Misrule of Witiza the Wicked., sentence 49

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While thus the ancient martial fire of the nation was extinguished, its morals likewise were corrupted.

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**Who acts:** ancient martial fire · **What happens:** be, corrupt, fire · **To what, where:** morals, nation

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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 (ancient martial fire), 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:pg77685:2:49
# text = While thus the ancient martial fire of the nation was extinguished, its morals likewise were corrupted.
1	While	while	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
2	thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
4	ancient	ancient	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
5	martial	martial	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	nation	nation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
11	extinguished	extinguished	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
13	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	morals	moral	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj:pass	_	_
15	likewise	likewise	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
16	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux:pass	_	_
17	corrupted	corrupt	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the ancient martial fire of the nation |  |  |  |  | extinguished *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **corrupt** | past · passive |  | fire's morals |  |  |  | likewise *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient |
| 3 | **fire** |  |  | the nation |  |  |  |  | nom fire «event 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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