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title: The inhabitants all promised implicit obedience and devoted zeal: fo… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: The inhabitants all promised implicit obedience and devoted zeal: for what will not the inhabitants of a wealthy city promise and profess in a moment of alarm? Who acts: inhabitants. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Expedition of Magued Against Cordova.—defence 
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Expedition of Magued Against Cordova.—defence of the Patriot Pelistes., sentence 10

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The inhabitants all promised implicit obedience and devoted zeal: for what will not the inhabitants of a wealthy city promise and profess in a moment of alarm?

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**Who acts:** inhabitants · **What happens:** promise, profess · **To what, where:** implicit obedience

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This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Expedition of Magued Against Cordova.—defence of the Patriot Pelistes.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (inhabitants), 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:pg77685:24:10
# text = The inhabitants all promised implicit obedience and devoted zeal: for what will not the inhabitants of a wealthy city promise and profess in a moment of alarm?
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	inhabitants	inhabitant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	all	all	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	promised	promise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	implicit	implicit	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	obedience	obedience	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	devoted	devoted	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	zeal	zeal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
11	for	for	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
12	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	16	nsubj	_	_
13	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
14	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	16	advmod	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	inhabitants	inhabitant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
19	wealthy	wealthy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
20	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	promise	promise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	profess	profess	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	conj	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	moment	moment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	alarm	alarm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **promise** *speech: promise* | past | the inhabitants | implicit obedience and devoted zeal |  |  |  | for the inhabitants of a wealthy city promise *goal*; all *property* | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent obedience=Theme for inhabitant=Goal |
| 2 | **profess** | infinitive | the inhabitants *not said here* |  |  |  | moment |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1-2 «NP V S\_ING»: 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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