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title: “Surely,” cried he, at length, “all the people of the earth have com… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: “Surely,” cried he, at length, “all the people of the earth have combined their power and skill to embellish and aggrandise this city. Who acts: people. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Muza Besieges the City of Merida., with its dependency tree and the pragmati
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Muza Besieges the City of Merida., sentence 11

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“Surely,” cried he, at length, “all the people of the earth have combined their power and skill to embellish and aggrandise this city.

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**Who acts:** people · **What happens:** cry, combine, embellish, aggrandise · **To what, where:** Muza, length, power, city · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (people), 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:pg77685:30:11
# text = “Surely,” cried he, at length, “all the people of the earth have combined their power and skill to embellish and aggrandise this city.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Surely	surely	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
5	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	at	at	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	length	length	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
11	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	14	det:predet	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nsubj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
18	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	combined	combine	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	5	conj	_	_
20	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	skill	skill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	embellish	embellish	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	advcl	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	aggrandise	aggrandise	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	conj	_	_
28	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	29	det	_	_
29	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cry** *speech: express* | past |  | Muza |  | length |  | surely *property* | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Topic |
| 2 | **combine** *in a quote* | present · perfect | all people of the earth | people's power and skill |  |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent power=Patient |
| 3 | **embellish** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | all people of the earth *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **aggrandise** *in a quote* | infinitive | all people of the earth *not said here* | this city |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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