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title: There they remained, to brood over their fallen fortunes, and to aid… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: There they remained, to brood over their fallen fortunes, and to aid in working out the future woes of Spain. Who acts: Evan. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, The Rise of Don Roderick.—his Government., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, The Rise of Don Roderick.—his Government., sentence 27

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There they remained, to brood over their fallen fortunes, and to aid in working out the future woes of Spain.

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**Who acts:** Evan · **What happens:** remain, brood, fall, aid, work out · **To what, where:** fallen fortunes, future woes

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This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, The Rise of Don Roderick.—his Government.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Evan), 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:pg77685:3:27
# text = There they remained, to brood over their fallen fortunes, and to aid in working out the future woes of Spain.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	3	expl	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	remained	remain	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	brood	brood	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	ccomp	_	_
7	over	over	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
9	fallen	fall	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	amod	_	_
10	fortunes	fortune	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	aid	aid	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
15	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
16	working	work	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	advcl	_	_
17	out	out	ADP	RP	_	16	compound:prt	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	future	future	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	woes	woe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	Spain	Spain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **remain** | past | Evan |  |  | there |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **brood** | to-infinitive | Evan *not said here* |  |  | Evan's fallen fortunes |  |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **fall** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **aid** | to-infinitive | Evan *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **work out** | gerund | Evan *not said here* | the future woes of Spain |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent woe=Topic |

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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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