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title: He gave a soldier-like account of his actions, frank and full, witho… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: He gave a soldier-like account of his actions, frank and full, without any feigned modesty, yet without vainglory. Who acts: TARIC. 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 38

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He gave a soldier-like account of his actions, frank and full, without any feigned modesty, yet without vainglory.

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**Who acts:** TARIC · **What happens:** give, feign, account, act · **To what, where:** like account, actions

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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 (TARIC), 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:pg77685:34:38
# text = He gave a soldier-like account of his actions, frank and full, without any feigned modesty, yet without vainglory.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
4	soldier	soldier	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	like	like	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	account	account	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	actions	action	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	frank	frank	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	without	without	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	19	det	_	_
18	feigned	feign	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	amod	_	_
19	modesty	modesty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	yet	yet	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
22	without	without	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	vainglory	vainglory	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | past | TARIC | a like account of TARIC's actions and frank |  |  |  | without any feigned modesty; without vainglory | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent account=Theme |
| 2 | **feign** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **account** |  |  | TARIC's actions and frank |  |  |  |  | nom account «communication transitive»: of=patient |
| 4 | **act** |  | TARIC |  |  |  |  |  | nom action «act intransitive»: 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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