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title: He remained for some time gazing in silence upon its mighty walls an… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: He remained for some time gazing in silence upon its mighty walls and lordly towers, its vast extent, and the stately palaces and temples with which it was adorned. Who acts: Muza, silence. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Muza Besieges the City of Merida., with
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Muza Besieges the City of Merida., sentence 10

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He remained for some time gazing in silence upon its mighty walls and lordly towers, its vast extent, and the stately palaces and temples with which it was adorned.

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**Who acts:** Muza, silence · **What happens:** remain, gaze, adorn, extend · **To what, where:** stately palaces

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This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Muza Besieges the City of Merida.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Muza, silence), 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:pg77685:30:10
# text = He remained for some time gazing in silence upon its mighty walls and lordly towers, its vast extent, and the stately palaces and temples with which it was adorned.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	remained	remain	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	for	for	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	5	det	_	_
5	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	gazing	gaze	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	silence	silence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
9	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
11	mighty	mighty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	walls	wall	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	lordly	lordly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	towers	tower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
18	vast	vast	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	extent	extent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	stately	stately	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	palaces	palace	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	nsubj:pass	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	temples	temple	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	conj	_	_
27	with	with	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	31	obl	_	_
29	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj:pass	_	_
30	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	aux:pass	_	_
31	adorned	adorn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **remain** | past | Muza |  |  |  | time |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **gaze** | gerund | Muza *not said here* |  |  |  |  | upon silence's mighty walls and lordly towers and silence's vast extent; in silence | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in silence=Theme |
| 3 | **adorn** | past · passive |  | the stately palaces and temples |  |  |  | which *obl*; extent *nsubj:pass* | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with which=Theme |
| 4 | **extend** |  | silence |  |  |  |  |  | nom extent «state 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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