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title: It was agreed that they should be permitted to retain their houses,… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: It was agreed that they should be permitted to retain their houses, lands, and personal effects; that they should be unmolested in their religion, and their temples and priests respected; and that they should pay no other tribute than such as they had been accustomed to render to their kings. Who ac
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Capture of Granada.—subjugation of the Alpuxarra Mountains., sentence 54

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It was agreed that they should be permitted to retain their houses, lands, and personal effects; that they should be unmolested in their religion, and their temples and priests respected; and that they should pay no other tribute than such as they had been accustomed to render to their kings.

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**Who acts:** conditions, temples · **What happens:** agree, permit, retain, be, respect, pay · **To what, where:** warrior, conditions, houses, religion, other tribute, kings

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This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Capture of Granada.—subjugation of the Alpuxarra Mountains.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (conditions, temples), 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:pg77685:23:54
# text = It was agreed that they should be permitted to retain their houses, lands, and personal effects; that they should be unmolested in their religion, and their temples and priests respected; and that they should pay no other tribute than such as they had been accustomed to render to their kings.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	agreed	agree	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
5	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj:pass	_	_
6	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
7	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	aux:pass	_	_
8	permitted	permit	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	advcl	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	retain	retain	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	xcomp	_	_
11	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	houses	house	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	lands	land	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	personal	personal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	effects	effect	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	24	punct	_	_
20	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
21	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
22	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
23	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	cop	_	_
24	unmolested	unmolested	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	parataxis	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	religion	religion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
30	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
31	temples	temple	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	nsubj	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
33	priests	priest	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	conj	_	_
34	respected	respect	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	40	punct	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
37	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	40	mark	_	_
38	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	40	nsubj	_	_
39	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	40	aux	_	_
40	pay	pay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
41	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	43	det	_	_
42	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	amod	_	_
43	tribute	tribute	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	obj	_	_
44	than	than	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
45	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	obl	_	_
46	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	50	mark	_	_
47	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	50	nsubj:pass	_	_
48	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	50	aux	_	_
49	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	50	aux:pass	_	_
50	accustomed	accustom	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	40	advcl	_	_
51	to	to	PART	TO	_	52	mark	_	_
52	render	render	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	50	xcomp	_	_
53	to	to	ADP	IN	_	55	case	_	_
54	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	55	nmod:poss	_	_
55	kings	king	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	52	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **agree** *speech: agree* | past · passive |  | warrior |  |  |  |  | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Topic |
| 2 | **permit** | should · passive |  | conditions *= condition* |  |  |  |  | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: subject=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **retain** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive |  | conditions's houses and lands and personal effects |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** | should | conditions *= condition* |  |  | conditions's religion |  | unmolested *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **respect** | past | conditions's temples and priests |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
| 6 | **pay** | should | conditions *= condition* | no other tribute |  |  |  | than such | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tribute=Asset |
| 7 | **accustom** | past · perfect · passive |  | conditions *= condition* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 8 | **render** | to-infinitive |  |  | conditions's kings |  |  |  | vn give-13.1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to king=Recipient |

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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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