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title: Without adding another word, he retired to Mount Deran, a prey to de… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: Without adding another word, he retired to Mount Deran, a prey to devouring melancholy. Who acts: veteran. 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 clause.
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Fate of Abdalasis and Exilona.—death of Muza., sentence 57

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Without adding another word, he retired to Mount Deran, a prey to devouring melancholy.

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**Who acts:** veteran · **What happens:** add, retire, devour · **To what, where:** word, Mount, melancholy

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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 (veteran), 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:pg77685:38:57
# text = Without adding another word, he retired to Mount Deran, a prey to devouring melancholy.
1	Without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	2	mark	_	_
2	adding	add	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
3	another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	4	det	_	_
4	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
6	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	retired	retire	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	Mount	Mount	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
10	Deran	Deran	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	prey	prey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	appos	_	_
14	to	to	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
15	devouring	devour	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	13	acl	_	_
16	melancholy	melancholy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **add** *speech: assert* | gerund | veteran *not said here* | another word |  |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Patient |
| 2 | **retire** | past | veteran |  | Mount |  |  |  | vn resign-10.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **devour** | gerund | veteran *not said here* | melancholy |  |  |  |  | vn devour-39.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent melancholy=Patient |

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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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