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title: Should they prefer to leave the country and remove to any part of Ch… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: Should they prefer to leave the country and remove to any part of Christendom, they were to be allowed to sell their possessions; and to take with them the money, and all their other effects. Who acts: conditions. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Capture of Gran
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Capture of Granada.—subjugation of the Alpuxarra Mountains., sentence 55

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Should they prefer to leave the country and remove to any part of Christendom, they were to be allowed to sell their possessions; and to take with them the money, and all their other effects.

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**Who acts:** conditions · **What happens:** prefer, leave, remove, allow, sell, take · **To what, where:** country, part, conditions, possessions, money

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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), 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:pg77685:23:55
# text = Should they prefer to leave the country and remove to any part of Christendom, they were to be allowed to sell their possessions; and to take with them the money, and all their other effects.
1	Should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	prefer	prefer	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	leave	leave	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	remove	remove	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	12	det	_	_
12	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	Christendom	Christendom	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
16	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj:pass	_	_
17	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux:pass	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
19	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	aux:pass	_	_
20	allowed	allow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	advcl	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	sell	sell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	xcomp	_	_
23	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	possessions	possession	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	28	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
27	to	to	PART	TO	_	28	mark	_	_
28	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
29	with	with	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	obl	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	money	money	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
35	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	38	det:predet	_	_
36	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	38	nmod:poss	_	_
37	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	effects	effect	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **prefer** | should | conditions *= condition* |  |  |  |  |  | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 2 | **leave** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | conditions *= condition* *not said here* | the country |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent country=Theme |
| 3 | **remove** | infinitive | conditions *= condition* *not said here* |  |  | any part of Christendom |  |  | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to part=Destination |
| 4 | **allow** | past · passive |  | conditions *= condition* |  |  |  |  | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: subject=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality |
| 5 | **sell** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | conditions *= condition* *not said here* | conditions's possessions |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent possession=Theme |
| 6 | **take** | to-infinitive | conditions *= condition* *not said here* | the money |  |  |  | with conditions *= condition*; conditions's other effects *obl* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent money=Theme |
| 7 | **possess** |  | conditions *= condition* |  |  |  |  |  | nom possession «act transitive»: poss=agent |
| 8 | **effect** |  | conditions *= condition* |  |  |  |  |  | nom effect «phenomenon transitive»: poss=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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