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title: The priests covered it with a pall of cloth of gold, and bore it bac… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: The priests covered it with a pall of cloth of gold, and bore it back in melancholy procession to the city, where it was received with loud lamentations. Who acts: priests. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Muza Besieges the City of Merida., with its dependency t
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Muza Besieges the City of Merida., sentence 40

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The priests covered it with a pall of cloth of gold, and bore it back in melancholy procession to the city, where it was received with loud lamentations.

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**Who acts:** priests · **What happens:** cover, bear back, receive, pall · **To what, where:** permission, melancholy procession, cloth

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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 (priests), 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:pg77685:30:40
# text = The priests covered it with a pall of cloth of gold, and bore it back in melancholy procession to the city, where it was received with loud lamentations.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	priests	priest	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	covered	cover	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	pall	pall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	cloth	cloth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	bore	bear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
15	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	_
16	back	back	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	melancholy	melancholy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	compound	_	_
19	procession	procession	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
24	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	27	advmod	_	_
25	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj:pass	_	_
26	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux:pass	_	_
27	received	receive	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	acl:relcl	_	_
28	with	with	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	loud	loud	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	lamentations	lamentation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cover** | past | the priests | permission |  |  |  | with a pall of cloth of gold | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Destination with pall=Theme |
| 2 | **bear back** | past | the priests *not said here* | permission |  | melancholy procession |  | to the city | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
| 3 | **receive** | past · passive |  | permission |  |  |  | with loud lamentations | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 4 | **pall** |  |  | cloth of gold |  |  |  |  | nom pall «feeling 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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