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title: There are not wanting other, and grave writers, who give them a stil… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: There are not wanting other, and grave writers, who give them a still darker purpose. Who acts: grave writers. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, The Cave of Hercules., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, The Cave of Hercules., sentence 8

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There are not wanting other, and grave writers, who give them a still darker purpose.

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**Who acts:** grave writers · **What happens:** be, not want, give · **To what, where:** other, darker purpose, writers

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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 (grave writers), 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:pg77685:21:8
# text = There are not wanting other, and grave writers, who give them a still darker purpose.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	are	be	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	wanting	want	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
5	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	grave	grave	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	writers	writer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj	_	_
12	give	give	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	acl:relcl	_	_
13	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	iobj	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
15	still	still	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	darker	dark	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	17	amod	_	_
17	purpose	purpose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | present |  |  |  | there |  | grave writers *conj* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **not** **want** | gerund |  | other |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot other=Theme |
| 3 | **give** | present | grave writers | a darker purpose | writers *= writer* |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient purpose=Theme |

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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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