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title: An opportunity at that very time presented itself, to prove the prow… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: An opportunity at that very time presented itself, to prove the prowess and discretion of the youth. Who acts: time, opportunity. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Expedition of Abdalasis Against Seville and the “land of Tadmir.”, with its dependency tree and the
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Expedition of Abdalasis Against Seville and the “land of Tadmir.”, sentence 13

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An opportunity at that very time presented itself, to prove the prowess and discretion of the youth.

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**Who acts:** time, opportunity · **What happens:** present, prove · **To what, where:** opportunity, prowess

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This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Expedition of Abdalasis Against Seville and the “land of Tadmir.”. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (time, opportunity), 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:pg77685:31:13
# text = An opportunity at that very time presented itself, to prove the prowess and discretion of the youth.
1	An	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	opportunity	opportunity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
3	at	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	6	det	_	_
5	very	very	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
7	presented	present	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl	_	_
8	itself	itself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	prove	prove	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	prowess	prowess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	discretion	discretion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	youth	youth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **present** | participle | that time *not said here* | opportunity |  |  |  |  | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent itself=Theme |
| 2 | **prove** | to-infinitive | a opportunity at that time | the prowess and discretion of the youth |  |  |  |  | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prowess=Theme |

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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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