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title: He was received, however, with rapture by the multitude, who crowded… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: He was received, however, with rapture by the multitude, who crowded to behold one of those conquerors of the west, whose wonderful achievements were the theme of every tongue. Who acts: multitude, wonderful achievements, theme. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, 
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter XIII., sentence 33

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He was received, however, with rapture by the multitude, who crowded to behold one of those conquerors of the west, whose wonderful achievements were the theme of every tongue.

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**Who acts:** multitude, wonderful achievements, theme · **What happens:** receive, crowd, behold, be, achieve · **To what, where:** Cadiz, one, theme

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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 (multitude, wonderful achievements, theme), 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:pg77685:34:33
# text = He was received, however, with rapture by the multitude, who crowded to behold one of those conquerors of the west, whose wonderful achievements were the theme of every tongue.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	received	receive	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	however	however	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	rapture	rapture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
9	by	by	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	multitude	multitude	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	14	nsubj	_	_
14	crowded	crowd	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	acl:relcl	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	behold	behold	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	xcomp	_	_
17	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	16	obj	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	20	det	_	_
20	conquerors	conqueror	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nmod	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	west	west	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	27	nmod:poss	_	_
26	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	achievements	achievement	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	nsubj	_	_
28	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	cop	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	theme	theme	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	acl:relcl	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	33	det	_	_
33	tongue	tongue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **receive** | past · passive | the multitude | Cadiz |  |  |  | with rapture; however *property* | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme |
| 2 | **crowd** | past | the multitude |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **behold** | to-infinitive | the multitude *not said here* | one of that conquerors of the west |  |  |  |  | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer one=Stimulus |
| 4 | **is a** | past | the theme's wonderful achievements | the theme |  |  |  | of every tongue | tree rules |
| 5 | **achieve** |  | the theme |  |  |  |  |  | nom achievement «act transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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