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title: To insure for a long time a supply of bread, he filled the magazines… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: To insure for a long time a supply of bread, he filled the magazines with grain, and erected windmills on the churches. Who acts: Hearing. 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 cl
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Muza Besieges the City of Merida., sentence 7

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To insure for a long time a supply of bread, he filled the magazines with grain, and erected windmills on the churches.

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**Who acts:** Hearing · **What happens:** insure, fill, erect · **To what, where:** supply, magazines

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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 (Hearing), 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:pg77685:30:7
# text = To insure for a long time a supply of bread, he filled the magazines with grain, and erected windmills on the churches.
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	insure	insure	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	supply	supply	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	bread	bread	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	filled	fill	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	magazines	magazine	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	_
16	with	with	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	grain	grain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	erected	erect	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	amod	_	_
21	windmills	windmill	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
22	on	on	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	churches	church	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **insure** | to-infinitive |  | a supply of bread |  |  | time | erected windmills on the churches *obl* | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent supply=Beneficiary |
| 2 | **fill** | past | Hearing | the magazines |  |  |  | with grain | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent magazine=Patient with grain=Instrument |
| 3 | **erect** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: 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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