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title: Whether the archbishop was encouraged to pursue his research and gra… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: Whether the archbishop was encouraged to pursue his research and gratify his curiosity, the history does not mention. Who acts: archbishop, history, several. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, The Cave of Hercules., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of e
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, The Cave of Hercules., sentence 25

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Whether the archbishop was encouraged to pursue his research and gratify his curiosity, the history does not mention.

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**Who acts:** archbishop, history, several · **What happens:** encourage, pursue, gratify, not mention, research · **To what, where:** archbishop, research, curiosity

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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 (archbishop, history, several), 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:pg77685:21:25
# text = Whether the archbishop was encouraged to pursue his research and gratify his curiosity, the history does not mention.
1	Whether	whether	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	archbishop	archbishop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	encouraged	encourage	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	advcl	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	pursue	pursue	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	research	research	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	gratify	gratify	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	_
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	curiosity	curiosity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	history	history	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
17	does	do	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
18	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	19	advmod	_	_
19	mention	mention	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **encourage** | past · passive |  | the archbishop |  |  |  |  | vn advise-37.9 «NP V NP how S\_INF»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **pursue** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the archbishop *not said here* | several's research |  |  |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent research=Theme |
| 3 | **gratify** | infinitive | the archbishop *not said here* | several's curiosity |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus curiosity=Experiencer |
| 4 | **not** **mention** *speech: other* | present · do-support | the history |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **research** |  | several |  |  |  |  |  | nom research «act transitive»: poss=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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