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title: He returned to Cordova, collecting by the way all the treasures he h… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: He returned to Cordova, collecting by the way all the treasures he had deposited in various places. Who acts: man. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Chapter XIII., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter XIII., sentence 15

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He returned to Cordova, collecting by the way all the treasures he had deposited in various places.

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**Who acts:** man · **What happens:** return, collect, deposit · **To what, where:** Cordova, treasures, various places

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This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Chapter XIII.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (man), 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:pg77685:34:15
# text = He returned to Cordova, collecting by the way all the treasures he had deposited in various places.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	returned	return	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Cordova	Cordova	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	collecting	collect	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
7	by	by	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	12	det:predet	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	treasures	treasure	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
14	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	deposited	deposit	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	12	acl:relcl	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	various	various	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	places	place	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **return** | past | man |  | Cordova |  |  |  | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to cordova=Result |
| 2 | **collect** | gerund | man *not said here* | all treasures |  |  |  | by the way | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **deposit** | past · perfect | man | all treasures *not said here* |  | various places |  |  | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent treasure=Theme in place=Destination |

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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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