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title: Exilona, unfortunately, had once been a queen, and she could not rem… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: Exilona, unfortunately, had once been a queen, and she could not remember her regal glories without regret. Who acts: Exilona. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Fate of Abdalasis and Exilona.—death of Muza., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cl
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Fate of Abdalasis and Exilona.—death of Muza., sentence 2

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Exilona, unfortunately, had once been a queen, and she could not remember her regal glories without regret.

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**Who acts:** Exilona · **What happens:** have, be, not remember, glory · **To what, where:** queen, regal glories

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This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Fate of Abdalasis and Exilona.—death of Muza.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Exilona), 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:pg77685:38:2
# text = Exilona, unfortunately, had once been a queen, and she could not remember her regal glories without regret.
1	Exilona	Exilona	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	unfortunately	unfortunately	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	9	advmod	_	_
7	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	9	cop	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	queen	queen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
12	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
13	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
14	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	15	advmod	_	_
15	remember	remember	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	conj	_	_
16	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
17	regal	regal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	glories	glory	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	_
19	without	without	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	regret	regret	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | Exilona |  |  |  |  | unfortunately *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** | participle |  | a queen |  |  |  | once *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **not** **remember** | could | Exilona | Exilona's regal glories |  |  |  | without regret | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent glory=Theme |
| 4 | **glory** |  | Exilona |  |  |  |  |  | nom glory «state 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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