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title: A number of persons furnished with provisions, lanterns, and cords,… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: A number of persons furnished with provisions, lanterns, and cords, then went in, and having proceeded about half a league, came to a place where there was a kind of chapel or temple, having a table or altar, with several statues of bronze in niches or on pedestals. Who acts: number. A sentence of «
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, The Cave of Hercules., sentence 19

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A number of persons furnished with provisions, lanterns, and cords, then went in, and having proceeded about half a league, came to a place where there was a kind of chapel or temple, having a table or altar, with several statues of bronze in niches or on pedestals.

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**Who acts:** number · **What happens:** furnish, go in, proceed, come, have · **To what, where:** persons, league, place, table

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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: who acts (number), 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:pg77685:21:19
# text = A number of persons furnished with provisions, lanterns, and cords, then went in, and having proceeded about half a league, came to a place where there was a kind of chapel or temple, having a table or altar, with several statues of bronze in niches or on pedestals.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	persons	person	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
5	furnished	furnish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	provisions	provision	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	lanterns	lantern	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	cords	cord	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
14	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	15	advmod	_	_
15	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
16	in	in	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	having	have	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	20	aux	_	_
20	proceeded	proceed	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	15	conj	_	_
21	about	about	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	half	half	DET	PDT	NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac|PronType=Ind	24	det:predet	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	league	league	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
26	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
27	to	to	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
30	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	32	advmod	_	_
31	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	32	expl	_	_
32	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	acl:relcl	_	_
33	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	kind	kind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	_
35	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	chapel	chapel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nmod	_	_
37	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
38	temple	temple	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
40	having	have	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	26	advcl	_	_
41	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	table	table	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obj	_	_
43	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
44	altar	altar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
46	with	with	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
47	several	several	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	48	amod	_	_
48	statues	statue	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	40	obl	_	_
49	of	of	ADP	IN	_	50	case	_	_
50	bronze	bronze	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	nmod	_	_
51	in	in	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
52	niches	niche	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	48	nmod	_	_
53	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	55	cc	_	_
54	on	on	ADP	IN	_	55	case	_	_
55	pedestals	pedestal	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	52	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **furnish** | participle |  | persons *not said here* |  |  |  | with provisions and lanterns and cords | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: agent=Agent with provision=Theme |
| 2 | **go in** | past | a number of persons |  |  |  | then |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **proceed** | gerund · perfect | a number of persons *not said here* | half league |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **come** | past | a number of persons *not said here* |  |  | a place |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to place=Initial\_Location |
| 5 | **have** | gerund | a number of persons *not said here* | a table or altar |  |  |  | with several statues of bronze in niches or pedestals | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent table=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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