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title: Thus was completed the subjugation of unhappy Spain. — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: Thus was completed the subjugation of unhappy Spain. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Chapter XII., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter XII., sentence 38

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Thus was completed the subjugation of unhappy Spain.

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**What happens:** complete, subjugate · **To what, where:** subjugation, unhappy Spain

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This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Chapter XII.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg77685:33:38
# text = Thus was completed the subjugation of unhappy Spain.
1	Thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	completed	complete	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	subjugation	subjugation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	unhappy	unhappy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	Spain	Spain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **complete** | past · passive |  | the subjugation of unhappy Spain |  |  |  | thus *property* | vn complete-55.2 «NP V NP»: subjugation=Eventuality |
| 2 | **subjugate** |  |  | unhappy Spain |  |  |  |  | nom subjugation «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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