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title: He ordered that the head and body should be placed together upon a b… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: He ordered that the head and body should be placed together upon a bier, and treated with becoming reverence. Who acts: renegado. 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 37

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He ordered that the head and body should be placed together upon a bier, and treated with becoming reverence.

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**Who acts:** renegado · **What happens:** order, place, treat · **To what, where:** head, bier

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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 (renegado), 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:pg77685:30:37
# text = He ordered that the head and body should be placed together upon a bier, and treated with becoming reverence.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	ordered	order	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj:pass	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
8	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
9	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	aux:pass	_	_
10	placed	place	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	ccomp	_	_
11	together	together	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
12	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	bier	bier	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	treated	treat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	_
18	with	with	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	becoming	becoming	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	reverence	reverence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **order** | past | renegado |  |  |  |  |  | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **place** | should · passive |  | the head and body |  | a bier |  | together *property* | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: subject=Theme upon bier=Destination |
| 3 | **treat** | participle | renegado *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with becoming reverence | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP»: agent=Agent with reverence=Theme |

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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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