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title: The search throughout the chapel, however, was equally vain, and the… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: The search throughout the chapel, however, was equally vain, and the soldiers were about to depart, when Yuza remarked a slight gleam of joy in the eye of the countess. Who acts: search, soldiers, Yuza. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Legend of Count Julian and
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Legend of Count Julian and His Family., sentence 128

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The search throughout the chapel, however, was equally vain, and the soldiers were about to depart, when Yuza remarked a slight gleam of joy in the eye of the countess.

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**Who acts:** search, soldiers, Yuza · **What happens:** be, depart, remark · **To what, where:** slight gleam, eye

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This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Legend of Count Julian and His Family.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (search, soldiers, Yuza), 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:pg77685:39:128
# text = The search throughout the chapel, however, was equally vain, and the soldiers were about to depart, when Yuza remarked a slight gleam of joy in the eye of the countess.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	search	search	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
3	throughout	throughout	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	chapel	chapel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
7	however	however	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
10	equally	equally	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	vain	vain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	soldiers	soldier	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	_
16	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
17	about	about	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	conj	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	depart	depart	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	23	advmod	_	_
22	Yuza	Yuza	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
23	remarked	remark	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	slight	slight	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	gleam	gleam	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	joy	joy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	_
29	in	in	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	eye	eye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	countess	countess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the search throughout the chapel |  |  |  |  | equally, however, vain *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | past | the soldiers |  |  |  |  | about *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **depart** | to-infinitive | the soldiers *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **remark** *speech: assert* | past | Yuza | a slight gleam of joy |  | the eye of the countess |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent gleam=Topic |

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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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