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title: They were forbidden, under pain of severe punishment, to molest any… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: They were forbidden, under pain of severe punishment, to molest any peaceable and unfortified towns, or any unarmed and unresisting people who remained quiet in their homes. Who acts: people. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Chapter I., with its dependency tree 
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter I., sentence 10

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They were forbidden, under pain of severe punishment, to molest any peaceable and unfortified towns, or any unarmed and unresisting people who remained quiet in their homes.

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**Who acts:** people · **What happens:** forbid, molest, unresist, remain, pain · **To what, where:** habits, pain, peaceable towns, people, homes, severe punishment

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This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Chapter I.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (people), 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:pg77685:22:10
# text = They were forbidden, under pain of severe punishment, to molest any peaceable and unfortified towns, or any unarmed and unresisting people who remained quiet in their homes.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	forbidden	forbid	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	under	under	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	pain	pain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	severe	severe	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	punishment	punishment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	molest	molest	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
13	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	17	det	_	_
14	peaceable	peaceable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	unfortified	unfortified	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	conj	_	_
17	towns	town	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
20	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	21	det	_	_
21	unarmed	unarmed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	unresisting	unresist	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	21	conj	_	_
24	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obj	_	_
25	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	26	nsubj	_	_
26	remained	remain	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	acl:relcl	_	_
27	quiet	quiet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	xcomp	_	_
28	in	in	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	homes	home	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **forbid** | past · passive |  | habits *= habit* |  | pain of severe punishment |  |  | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **molest** | to-infinitive |  | any peaceable towns |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus town=Experiencer |
| 3 | **unresist** | gerund |  | people |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **remain** | past | people |  |  | habits's homes |  | quiet *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in home=Location |
| 5 | **pain** |  |  | severe punishment |  |  |  |  | nom pain «state 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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