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title: Among these sacred spoils was found a cup, made of a single pearl, w… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: Among these sacred spoils was found a cup, made of a single pearl, which a king of Spain, in ancient times, had brought from the temple of Jerusalem when it was destroyed by Nebuchadnezzar. Who acts: single pearl, Nebuchadnezzar. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving,
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Muza Besieges the City of Merida., sentence 70

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Among these sacred spoils was found a cup, made of a single pearl, which a king of Spain, in ancient times, had brought from the temple of Jerusalem when it was destroyed by Nebuchadnezzar.

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**Who acts:** single pearl, Nebuchadnezzar · **What happens:** spoil, find, make, king, bring, destroy · **To what, where:** these, temple, cup

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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 (single pearl, Nebuchadnezzar), 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:pg77685:30:70
# text = Among these sacred spoils was found a cup, made of a single pearl, which a king of Spain, in ancient times, had brought from the temple of Jerusalem when it was destroyed by Nebuchadnezzar.
1	Among	among	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
2	these	this	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	sacred	sacred	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	spoils	spoil	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	acl:relcl	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	cup	cup	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	conj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	single	single	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	pearl	pearl	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	18	nsubj	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	appos	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	Spain	Spain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	ancient	ancient	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
26	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
27	brought	bring	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	conj	_	_
28	from	from	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	temple	temple	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	Jerusalem	Jerusalem	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	_
33	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	36	advmod	_	_
34	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj:pass	_	_
35	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	36	aux:pass	_	_
36	destroyed	destroy	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	27	advcl	_	_
37	by	by	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	Nebuchadnezzar	Nebuchadnezzar	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **spoil** | present |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn entity\_specific\_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **find** | past · passive |  | these |  |  |  | a cup *obj* | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Theme cup=Attribute |
| 3 | **make** | participle |  |  |  |  | time | of a single pearl | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
| 4 | **king** |  | a single pearl |  |  |  |  | of Spain | tree rules |
| 5 | **bring** | past · perfect |  |  |  | the temple of Jerusalem |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent from temple=Initial\_Location |
| 6 | **destroy** | past · passive | Nebuchadnezzar | cup |  |  |  |  | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=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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