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title: The unsteady populace were again seized with terror; and, surroundin… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: The unsteady populace were again seized with terror; and, surrounding their governor with fresh clamours, obliged him to send forth ambassadors a second time to treat of a surrender. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Muza Besieges the City of Merida., with its de
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Muza Besieges the City of Merida., sentence 56

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The unsteady populace were again seized with terror; and, surrounding their governor with fresh clamours, obliged him to send forth ambassadors a second time to treat of a surrender.

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**What happens:** seize, surround, oblige, send, treat · **To what, where:** unsteady populace, governor, arrival, ambassadors

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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: 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:pg77685:30:56
# text = The unsteady populace were again seized with terror; and, surrounding their governor with fresh clamours, obliged him to send forth ambassadors a second time to treat of a surrender.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	unsteady	unsteady	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	populace	populace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
5	again	again	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	seized	seize	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	terror	terror	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	surrounding	surround	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	parataxis	_	_
13	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	governor	governor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	with	with	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	fresh	fresh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	clamours	clamour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	obliged	oblige	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
20	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	send	send	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	xcomp	_	_
23	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
24	ambassadors	ambassador	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obj	_	_
25	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	second	second	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	27	amod	_	_
27	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl:unmarked	_	_
28	to	to	PART	TO	_	29	mark	_	_
29	treat	treat	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	acl	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	surrender	surrender	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **seize** | past · passive |  | the unsteady populace |  |  | again | with terror | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **surround** | gerund |  | terror's governor |  |  |  | with fresh clamours | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent governor=Destination with clamour=Theme |
| 3 | **oblige** | past |  | arrival |  |  |  |  | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent he=Patient clause=Result |
| 4 | **send** | to-infinitive |  | ambassadors |  |  | time | forth *property* | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ambassador=Theme |
| 5 | **treat** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | of a surrender | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=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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