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title: As to the spoil of the conquered, he shared it freely among his foll… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: As to the spoil of the conquered, he shared it freely among his followers, and squandered his own portion with open-handed generosity. Who acts: spoil. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Chapter I., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter I., sentence 17

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As to the spoil of the conquered, he shared it freely among his followers, and squandered his own portion with open-handed generosity.

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**Who acts:** spoil · **What happens:** conquer, share, squander, hand · **To what, where:** spoil, reward, own portion

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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 (spoil), 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:pg77685:22:17
# text = As to the spoil of the conquered, he shared it freely among his followers, and squandered his own portion with open-handed generosity.
1	As	as	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	4	case	_	_
2	to	to	ADP	IN	_	1	fixed	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	spoil	spoil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
5	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	conquered	conquer	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	shared	share	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
12	freely	freely	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
13	among	among	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	followers	follower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	squandered	squander	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
19	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
20	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	portion	portion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
22	with	with	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
23	open	open	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	handed	hand	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	26	amod	_	_
26	generosity	generosity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **conquer** | participle |  | the spoil *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **share** | past | spoil | reward |  |  |  | as the spoil; among spoil's followers; freely *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **squander** | past | spoil *not said here* | spoil's own portion |  |  |  | with handed generosity | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent portion=Asset |
| 4 | **hand** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=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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