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title: Messengers after messengers arrived, vying who should most extol the… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: Messengers after messengers arrived, vying who should most extol the achievements of the conqueror and the grandeur of the conquest. Who acts: Messengers. 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 19

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Messengers after messengers arrived, vying who should most extol the achievements of the conqueror and the grandeur of the conquest.

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**Who acts:** Messengers · **What happens:** arrive, vie, extol, achieve · **To what, where:** achievements, conqueror

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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 (Messengers), 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:pg77685:22:19
# text = Messengers after messengers arrived, vying who should most extol the achievements of the conqueror and the grandeur of the conquest.
1	Messengers	messenger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
2	after	after	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	messengers	messenger	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nmod	_	_
4	arrived	arrive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	vying	vie	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
7	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	10	nsubj	_	_
8	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
9	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	10	advmod	_	_
10	extol	extol	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	ccomp	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	achievements	achievement	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	conqueror	conqueror	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	grandeur	grandeur	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	conquest	conquest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **arrive** | past | Messengers after messengers |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **vie** | gerund | Messengers after messengers *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **extol** | should |  | the achievements of the conqueror and the grandeur of the conquest |  |  |  | who *nsubj* | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent achievement=Theme |
| 4 | **achieve** |  |  | the conqueror and the grandeur of the conquest |  |  |  |  | nom achievement «act 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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