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title: What shore these ocean-pilgrims landed upon has never been revealed;… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: What shore these ocean-pilgrims landed upon has never been revealed; but tradition vaguely gives us to believe that it was some unknown island, far in the bosom of the Atlantic. Who acts: shore, tradition. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Muza Besieges the City 
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Muza Besieges the City of Merida., sentence 78

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What shore these ocean-pilgrims landed upon has never been revealed; but tradition vaguely gives us to believe that it was some unknown island, far in the bosom of the Atlantic.

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**Who acts:** shore, tradition · **What happens:** land, not reveal, give, believe, be, bosom · **To what, where:** us, unknown island, Atlantic · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (shore, tradition), 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:pg77685:30:78
# text = What shore these ocean-pilgrims landed upon has never been revealed; but tradition vaguely gives us to believe that it was some unknown island, far in the bosom of the Atlantic.
1	What	what	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	2	det	_	_
2	shore	shore	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
3	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	6	det	_	_
4	ocean	ocean	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	pilgrims	pilgrim	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
7	landed	land	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	upon	upon	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
9	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
10	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	12	advmod	_	_
11	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	12	aux:pass	_	_
12	revealed	reveal	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
14	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
15	tradition	tradition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
16	vaguely	vaguely	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	gives	give	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
18	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	17	iobj	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	believe	believe	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	advcl	_	_
21	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
22	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
23	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
24	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	26	det	_	_
25	unknown	unknown	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	island	island	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
28	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	31	advmod	_	_
29	in	in	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	bosom	bosom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	conj	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	Atlantic	Atlantic	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **land** | past | what shore |  |  |  |  | this ocean pilgrims *nsubj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **reveal** | present · perfect · passive | what shore *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-2 «NP V NP» |
| 3 | **give** | present | tradition |  | us |  |  | vaguely *property* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Theme |
| 4 | **believe** | to-infinitive | tradition *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
| 5 | **is a** | past | tradition | some unknown island and the bosom of the Atlantic |  |  |  | the bosom of the Atlantic *conj* | tree rules |
| 6 | **bosom** |  |  | the Atlantic |  |  |  |  | nom bosom «state 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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