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title: The countess was dragged away by the soldiery, without regard to her… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: The countess was dragged away by the soldiery, without regard to her struggles and her cries, and confined in a dungeon of the citadel. Who acts: soldiery, woman. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Legend of Count Julian and His Family., with its dependency tree a
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Legend of Count Julian and His Family., sentence 140

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The countess was dragged away by the soldiery, without regard to her struggles and her cries, and confined in a dungeon of the citadel.

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**Who acts:** soldiery, woman · **What happens:** drag away, confine, struggle, cry · **To what, where:** countess, dungeon

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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 (soldiery, woman), 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:pg77685:39:140
# text = The countess was dragged away by the soldiery, without regard to her struggles and her cries, and confined in a dungeon of the citadel.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	countess	countess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	dragged	drag	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	away	away	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	by	by	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	soldiery	soldiery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	without	without	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	regard	regard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	struggles	struggle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nmod	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	cries	cry	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	confined	confine	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	dungeon	dungeon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	citadel	citadel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **drag away** | past · passive | the soldiery | the countess |  |  |  | without regard to woman's struggles and woman's cries; away *property* | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme |
| 2 | **confine** | participle | the soldiery *not said here* |  |  | a dungeon of the citadel |  |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent in dungeon=Destination |
| 3 | **struggle** |  | woman |  |  |  |  |  | nom struggle «act intransitive»: poss=agent |
| 4 | **cry** |  | woman |  |  |  |  |  | nom cry «communication 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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