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title: All thy success has been owing to mere luck, not to judgment nor gen… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: All thy success has been owing to mere luck, not to judgment nor generalship.” Who acts: success. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Muza Arrives At Toledo.—interview Between Him and Taric., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Muza Arrives At Toledo.—interview Between Him and Taric., sentence 21

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All thy success has been owing to mere luck, not to judgment nor generalship.”

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**Who acts:** success · **What happens:** owe · **To what, where:** mere luck

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This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Muza Arrives At Toledo.—interview Between Him and Taric.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (success), 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:pg77685:32:21
# text = All thy success has been owing to mere luck, not to judgment nor generalship.”
1	All	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	3	det	_	_
2	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	success	success	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	6	aux	_	_
6	owing	owe	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	mere	mere	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	luck	luck	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	13	advmod	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	judgment	judgment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	parataxis	_	_
14	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	15	cc	_	_
15	generalship	generalship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **owe** | present · perfect · progressive | thy success |  |  |  |  | to mere luck *goal*; judgment nor generalship *parataxis* | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent to luck=Goal |

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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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