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title: Those of tender age were taught all graceful accomplishments; and ev… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: Those of tender age were taught all graceful accomplishments; and even where tasks were imposed, they were of the most elegant and agreeable kind. Who acts: Those. 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 5

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Those of tender age were taught all graceful accomplishments; and even where tasks were imposed, they were of the most elegant and agreeable kind.

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**Who acts:** Those · **What happens:** teach, impose, be · **To what, where:** graceful accomplishments, tasks

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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 (Those), 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:pg77685:37:5
# text = Those of tender age were taught all graceful accomplishments; and even where tasks were imposed, they were of the most elegant and agreeable kind.
1	Those	that	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	26	nsubj	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	tender	tender	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	age	age	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
5	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	taught	teach	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	acl:relcl	_	_
7	all	all	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
8	graceful	graceful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	accomplishments	accomplishment	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
12	even	even	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
13	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	16	advmod	_	_
14	tasks	task	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	_
15	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux:pass	_	_
16	imposed	impose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
18	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
19	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
22	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	23	advmod	_	_
23	elegant	elegant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	agreeable	agreeable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	conj	_	_
26	kind	kind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	26	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **teach** *speech: other* | past · passive |  | graceful accomplishments |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: accomplishment=Recipient |
| 2 | **impose** | past · passive |  | tasks |  |  |  |  | vn enforce-63 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | past | Those of tender age |  |  |  |  | of the elegant kind; tasks *= task* *nsubj* | tree rules |

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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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