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title: The most intrepid candidate on record was a poor man who had lost hi… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: The most intrepid candidate on record was a poor man who had lost his all, and had those grand incentives to desperate enterprise, a wife and a large family of children. Who acts: intrepid candidate, poor man. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, The Cave of Hercule
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, The Cave of Hercules., sentence 31

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The most intrepid candidate on record was a poor man who had lost his all, and had those grand incentives to desperate enterprise, a wife and a large family of children.

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**Who acts:** intrepid candidate, poor man · **What happens:** be, lose, have · **To what, where:** poor man, all, grand incentives

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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 (intrepid candidate, poor man), 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:pg77685:21:31
# text = The most intrepid candidate on record was a poor man who had lost his all, and had those grand incentives to desperate enterprise, a wife and a large family of children.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	3	advmod	_	_
3	intrepid	intrepid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	candidate	candidate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	record	record	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	poor	poor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
11	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	_
12	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	lost	lose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	10	acl:relcl	_	_
14	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	acl:relcl	_	_
19	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	21	det	_	_
20	grand	grand	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	incentives	incentive	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	_
22	to	to	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	desperate	desperate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	enterprise	enterprise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
29	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	large	large	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	conj	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | the intrepid candidate on record | a poor man |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **lose** | past · perfect | a poor man | all |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent all=Eventuality |
| 3 | **have** | past | a poor man *not said here* | that grand incentives |  |  |  | to desperate enterprise and a wife and a large family of children | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent incentive=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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