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title: Another and very popular story of this cave, current among the commo… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: Another and very popular story of this cave, current among the common people, was, that in its remote recesses lay concealed a great treasure of gold, left there by the Romans. Who acts: story. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, The Cave of Hercules., with its dep
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, The Cave of Hercules., sentence 28

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Another and very popular story of this cave, current among the common people, was, that in its remote recesses lay concealed a great treasure of gold, left there by the Romans.

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**Who acts:** story · **What happens:** be, leave, recess, treasure · **To what, where:** popular story, great treasure, gold

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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 (story), 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:pg77685:21:28
# text = Another and very popular story of this cave, current among the common people, was, that in its remote recesses lay concealed a great treasure of gold, left there by the Romans.
1	Another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	5	det	_	_
2	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
3	very	very	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	popular	popular	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj:pass	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	8	det	_	_
8	cave	cave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	current	current	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
11	among	among	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	common	common	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
16	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
18	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	24	nsubj:pass	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
21	remote	remote	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	recesses	recess	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nmod	_	_
23	lay	lie	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux:pass	_	_
24	concealed	conceal	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	treasure	treasure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
31	left	leave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	27	acl	_	_
32	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	31	advmod	_	_
33	by	by	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	Romans	Roman	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	24	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past · passive |  | another popular story of this cave and current among the common people |  |  |  | that in story's remote recesses *nsubj:pass*; a great treasure of gold *obj*; conceal *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **leave** | participle |  | a great treasure of gold *not said here* |  | there |  | by the Romans | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent by roman=Location |
| 3 | **recess** |  | story |  |  |  |  |  | nom recess «state transitive»: poss=agent |
| 4 | **treasure** |  |  | gold |  |  |  |  | nom treasure «possession 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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