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title: The nobles, who had been roused to temporary manhood during the rece… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: The nobles, who had been roused to temporary manhood during the recent stir of war, sunk back into the inglorious state of inaction which had disgraced them during the reign of Witiza, passing their time in feasting, and dancing to the sound of loose and wanton minstrelsy. A sentence of «Legends of 
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, The Rise of Don Roderick.—his Government., sentence 34

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The nobles, who had been roused to temporary manhood during the recent stir of war, sunk back into the inglorious state of inaction which had disgraced them during the reign of Witiza, passing their time in feasting, and dancing to the sound of loose and wanton minstrelsy.

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**What happens:** rouse, sunk back, disgrace, pass, dance, stir · **To what, where:** nobles, inglorious state, inaction, feasting, sound, war

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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: 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:pg77685:3:34
# text = The nobles, who had been roused to temporary manhood during the recent stir of war, sunk back into the inglorious state of inaction which had disgraced them during the reign of Witiza, passing their time in feasting, and dancing to the sound of loose and wanton minstrelsy.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	nobles	noble	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
4	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
6	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	roused	rouse	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	temporary	temporary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	manhood	manhood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
11	during	during	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	recent	recent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	stir	stir	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	war	war	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	sunk	sunk	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	conj	_	_
19	back	back	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
20	into	into	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	inglorious	inglorious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	state	state	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	inaction	inaction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	_
26	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	28	nsubj:pass	_	_
27	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
28	disgraced	disgrace	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	25	acl:relcl	_	_
29	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	obj	_	_
30	during	during	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	reign	reign	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	Witiza	Witiza	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
36	passing	pass	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	18	advcl	_	_
37	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	38	nmod:poss	_	_
38	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obj	_	_
39	in	in	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
40	feasting	feasting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
42	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
43	dancing	dance	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	36	conj	_	_
44	to	to	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
45	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
46	sound	sound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	obl	_	_
47	of	of	ADP	IN	_	51	case	_	_
48	loose	loose	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	51	amod	_	_
49	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	50	cc	_	_
50	wanton	wanton	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	48	conj	_	_
51	minstrelsy	minstrelsy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
52	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rouse** | past · perfect · passive |  | the nobles |  |  | during the recent stir of war | to temporary manhood; who *nsubj:pass* | vn stimulate-59.4 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 2 | **sunk back** | infinitive |  |  |  | the inglorious state of inaction |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **disgrace** | past · perfect · passive |  | inaction |  |  | during the reign of Witiza | nobles *= noble* *obj* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Experiencer they=Result |
| 4 | **pass** | gerund |  |  |  | feasting | time |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in feasting=Location |
| 5 | **dance** | gerund |  |  |  | the sound of loose minstrelsy |  |  | vn waltz-51.5 «NP V PP.trajectory PP.goal»: agent=Theme to sound=Trajectory |
| 6 | **stir** |  |  | war |  |  |  |  | nom stir «state 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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