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title: The writer of these pages will venture to add the result of his pers… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: The writer of these pages will venture to add the result of his personal researches respecting the far famed cavern in question. Who acts: writer, personal researches, Hercules. 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 48

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The writer of these pages will venture to add the result of his personal researches respecting the far famed cavern in question.

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**Who acts:** writer, personal researches, Hercules · **What happens:** venture, add, respect, fame, result, research · **To what, where:** result, far famed cavern, question, personal researches

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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 (writer, personal researches, Hercules), 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:pg77685:21:48
# text = The writer of these pages will venture to add the result of his personal researches respecting the far famed cavern in question.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	writer	writer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	5	det	_	_
5	pages	page	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
6	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	venture	venture	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	add	add	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	xcomp	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	result	result	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
14	personal	personal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	researches	research	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nmod	_	_
16	respecting	respect	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	15	acl	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
18	far	far	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
19	famed	fame	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	amod	_	_
20	cavern	cavern	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	question	question	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **venture** | future | the writer of this pages |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **add** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive | the writer of this pages *not said here* | the result of Hercules's personal researches |  |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent result=Patient |
| 3 | **respect** | gerund | Hercules's personal researches *not said here* | the far famed cavern |  | question |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer cavern=Stimulus |
| 4 | **fame** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **result** |  |  | Hercules's personal researches |  |  |  |  | nom result «phenomenon transitive»: of=patient |
| 6 | **research** |  | Hercules |  |  |  |  |  | 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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