--- title: Instead of a sudden but transient influx of wealth, made by the ruin… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics description: Instead of a sudden but transient influx of wealth, made by the ruin of the land, which left the country desolate, a regular and permanent revenue sprang up, produced by reviving prosperity, and gathered without violence. Who acts: land, country, regular revenue. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (land, country, regular revenue), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg77685:36:32 # text = Instead of a sudden but transient influx of wealth, made by the ruin of the land, which left the country desolate, a regular and permanent revenue sprang up, produced by reviving prosperity, and gathered without violence. 1 Instead instead ADV RB ExtPos=ADP 7 case _ _ 2 of of ADP IN _ 1 fixed _ _ 3 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 4 sudden sudden ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 7 amod _ _ 5 but but CCONJ CC _ 6 cc _ _ 6 transient transient ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 4 conj _ _ 7 influx influx NOUN NN Number=Sing 0 root _ _ 8 of of ADP IN _ 9 case _ _ 9 wealth wealth NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 11 made make VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 7 acl _ _ 12 by by ADP IN _ 14 case _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 ruin ruin NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 15 of of ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 land land NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 19 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 20 nsubj _ _ 20 left leave 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 country country NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obj _ _ 23 desolate desolate VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 20 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 24 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 25 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 29 det _ _ 26 regular regular ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 29 amod _ _ 27 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 28 permanent permanent ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 26 conj _ _ 29 revenue revenue NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 nsubj _ _ 30 sprang spring VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 14 parataxis _ _ 31 up up ADP RP _ 30 compound:prt _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 33 produced produce VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 30 conj _ _ 34 by by SCONJ IN _ 35 mark _ _ 35 reviving revive VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 33 advcl _ _ 36 prosperity prosperity NOUN NN Number=Sing 35 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 37 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 38 and and CCONJ CC _ 39 cc _ _ 39 gathered gather VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 30 conj _ _ 40 without without ADP IN _ 41 case _ _ 41 violence violence NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 42 . . PUNCT . _ 7 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **make** | participle | | a sudden influx of wealth *not said here* | | | | by the ruin of the land | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | | 2 | **leave** | past | the land | the country | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **desolate** | infinitive | the country *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 4 | **spring up** | past | a regular revenue | | | | | | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **produce** | participle | a regular revenue *not said here* | | | | | | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **revive** | gerund | a regular revenue *not said here* | prosperity | | | | | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent prosperity=Patient | | 7 | **gather** | past | a regular revenue *not said here* | | | | | without violence | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 9 | **ruin** | | | the land | | | | | nom ruin «state transitive»: of=patient | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 31](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77685/36/31/) - next →: [sentence 33](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77685/36/33/) - ↑ back to [Conduct of Abdalasis As Emir of Spain.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77685/36/)