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title: In the year 1546 an account of this cavern was given to the archbish… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: In the year 1546 an account of this cavern was given to the archbishop and cardinal Don Juan Martinez Siliceo, who, desirous of examining it, ordered the entrance to be cleaned. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, The Cave of Hercules., with its dependency tree and
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, The Cave of Hercules., sentence 18

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In the year 1546 an account of this cavern was given to the archbishop and cardinal Don Juan Martinez Siliceo, who, desirous of examining it, ordered the entrance to be cleaned.

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**What happens:** give, examine, order, clean, account · **To what, where:** account, archbishop, entrance, cavern

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This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, The Cave of Hercules.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg77685:21:18
# text = In the year 1546 an account of this cavern was given to the archbishop and cardinal Don Juan Martinez Siliceo, who, desirous of examining it, ordered the entrance to be cleaned.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	year	year	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
4	1546	1546	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	3	flat	_	_
5	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	account	account	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj:pass	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	9	det	_	_
9	cavern	cavern	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux:pass	_	_
11	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	archbishop	archbishop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	cardinal	cardinal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
17	Don	Don	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	appos	_	_
18	Juan	Juan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	flat	_	_
19	Martinez	Martinez	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	flat	_	_
20	Siliceo	Siliceo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	24	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
24	desirous	desirous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	conj	_	_
25	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
26	examining	examine	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	24	advcl	_	_
27	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
29	ordered	order	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	entrance	entrance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obj	_	_
32	to	to	PART	TO	_	34	mark	_	_
33	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	34	aux:pass	_	_
34	cleaned	clean	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	31	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | past · passive |  | a account of this cavern | the archbishop and cardinal |  | year |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Theme to archbishop=Recipient |
| 2 | **examine** | gerund |  | account |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 3 | **order** | past |  | the entrance |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent entrance=Theme |
| 4 | **clean** | to-infinitive · passive |  | the entrance *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V» |
| 5 | **account** |  |  | this cavern |  |  |  |  | nom account «communication 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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