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title: City after city laid its keys at his feet, and implored to be receiv… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: City after city laid its keys at his feet, and implored to be received in peaceful vassalage. Who acts: City. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Muza Besieges the City of Merida., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Muza Besieges the City of Merida., sentence 3

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City after city laid its keys at his feet, and implored to be received in peaceful vassalage.

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**Who acts:** City · **What happens:** lay, implore, receive · **To what, where:** keys, feet, peaceful vassalage

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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 (City), 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:pg77685:30:3
# text = City after city laid its keys at his feet, and implored to be received in peaceful vassalage.
1	City	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	after	after	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
4	laid	lay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	keys	key	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
7	at	at	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	implored	implore	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
14	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	aux:pass	_	_
15	received	receive	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	xcomp	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	peaceful	peaceful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	vassalage	vassalage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lay** | past | City after city | City's keys |  | army's feet |  |  | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent key=Theme at foot=Destination |
| 2 | **implore** | participle | City after city *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **receive** | to-infinitive · passive | City after city *not said here* |  |  | peaceful vassalage |  |  | vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: in vassalage=Location |

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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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