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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Of the Ancient Inhabitants of Spain.—of the Misrule of Witiza the Wicked., sentence 8

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Sprung from a union of warrior races, reared and nurtured amidst the din of arms, the Gothic Spaniards, if they may so be termed, were a warlike, unquiet, yet high-minded and heroic people.

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**Who acts:** Sprung, arms · **What happens:** rear, nurture, term, be, din · **To what, where:** warrior races, Spaniards, warlike people

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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 (Sprung, arms), 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:pg77685:2:8
# text = Sprung from a union of warrior races, reared and nurtured amidst the din of arms, the Gothic Spaniards, if they may so be termed, were a warlike, unquiet, yet high-minded and heroic people.
1	Sprung	Sprung	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	41	nsubj	_	_
2	from	from	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	union	union	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	warrior	warrior	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	races	race	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	reared	rear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	acl	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	nurtured	nurture	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	conj	_	_
12	amidst	amidst	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	din	din	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	arms	arm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	Gothic	gothic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	Spaniards	Spaniard	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
22	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
23	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
24	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
25	so	so	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
26	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	aux:pass	_	_
27	termed	term	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
29	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	41	cop	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
31	warlike	warlike	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
33	unquiet	unquiet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
35	yet	yet	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
36	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	36	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	minded	minded	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	conj	_	_
39	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
40	heroic	heroic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	conj	_	_
41	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	41	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rear** | participle |  | warrior races *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn rear-26.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **nurture** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | amidst the din of arms and the Gothic Spaniards | vn rear-26.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **term** | may · passive |  | Spaniards *= spaniard* |  |  |  |  | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 4 | **is a** | past | Sprung from a union of warrior races | a warlike people |  |  | yet |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **din** |  | arms and the Gothic Spaniards |  |  |  |  |  | nom din «event intransitive»: of=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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