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title: It is the duty of my station to console a princess who has been redu… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: It is the duty of my station to console a princess who has been reduced to the lowest humiliation by the triumphs of our arms. Who acts: weakness, triumphs, arms. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Loves of Abdalasis and Exilona., with its dependency tree and the 
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Loves of Abdalasis and Exilona., sentence 27

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It is the duty of my station to console a princess who has been reduced to the lowest humiliation by the triumphs of our arms.

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**Who acts:** weakness, triumphs, arms · **What happens:** be, reduce, triumph · **To what, where:** duty, princess, lowest humiliation

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This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Loves of Abdalasis and Exilona.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (weakness, triumphs, arms), 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:pg77685:37:27
# text = It is the duty of my station to console a princess who has been reduced to the lowest humiliation by the triumphs of our arms.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	duty	duty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	station	station	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	console	console	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	appos	_	_
12	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	15	nsubj:pass	_	_
13	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
14	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	15	aux:pass	_	_
15	reduced	reduce	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	acl:relcl	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	lowest	low	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	19	amod	_	_
19	humiliation	humiliation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
20	by	by	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	triumphs	triumph	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	arms	arm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | weakness | the duty |  |  |  | of my station and console | tree rules |
| 2 | **reduce** | present · perfect · passive | the triumphs of our arms | a princess |  |  |  | to the lowest humiliation *goal* | vn limit-76 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Causer subject=Patient to humiliation=Goal |
| 3 | **triumph** |  | our arms |  |  |  |  |  | nom triumph «event intransitive»: of=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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