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title: As he passed through the streets he ordered purses of gold to be thr… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: As he passed through the streets he ordered purses of gold to be thrown among the populace, who rent the air with acclamations. Who acts: MUZA, purses, populace. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Chapter XIV., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every 
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter XIV., sentence 8

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As he passed through the streets he ordered purses of gold to be thrown among the populace, who rent the air with acclamations.

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**Who acts:** MUZA, purses, populace · **What happens:** pass, order, throw, rend · **To what, where:** streets, purses, populace, air

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This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Chapter XIV.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (MUZA, purses, populace), 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:pg77685:35:8
# text = As he passed through the streets he ordered purses of gold to be thrown among the populace, who rent the air with acclamations.
1	As	as	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	passed	pass	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	through	through	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	streets	street	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	ordered	order	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
9	purses	purse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
13	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	aux:pass	_	_
14	thrown	throw	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	xcomp	_	_
15	among	among	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	populace	populace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	20	nsubj	_	_
20	rent	rend	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	acl:relcl	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	with	with	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	acclamations	acclamation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pass** | past | MUZA |  |  | the streets |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme through street=Location |
| 2 | **order** | past | MUZA | purses of gold |  |  |  |  | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent purse=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 3 | **throw** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive · passive | purses of gold *not said here* |  |  | the populace |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: among populace=Destination |
| 4 | **rend** | past | the populace | the air |  |  |  | with acclamations | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent air=Patient with acclamation=Instrument |

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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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