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title: Men whispered together as he approached, and then turned away in sco… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: Men whispered together as he approached, and then turned away in scorn; and mothers snatched away their children with horror if he offered to caress them. Who acts: Men, tree, mothers. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Legend of Count Julian and His Family., with
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Legend of Count Julian and His Family., sentence 15

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Men whispered together as he approached, and then turned away in scorn; and mothers snatched away their children with horror if he offered to caress them.

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**Who acts:** Men, tree, mothers · **What happens:** whisper, approach, turn away, snatch away, offer, caress · **To what, where:** scorn, children

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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 (Men, tree, mothers), 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:pg77685:39:15
# text = Men whispered together as he approached, and then turned away in scorn; and mothers snatched away their children with horror if he offered to caress them.
1	Men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
2	whispered	whisper	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	together	together	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	approached	approach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	10	advmod	_	_
10	turned	turn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
11	away	away	ADP	RP	_	10	compound:prt	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	scorn	scorn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	mothers	mother	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	_
17	snatched	snatch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
18	away	away	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
19	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	_
21	with	with	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	horror	horror	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
23	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
24	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	offered	offer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	advcl	_	_
26	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
27	caress	caress	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	xcomp	_	_
28	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **whisper** *speech: assert* | past | Men |  |  |  |  | together *property* | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **approach** | past | tree |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **turn away** | past |  |  |  | scorn | then |  | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **snatch away** | past | mothers | mothers's children |  |  |  | with horror; away *property* | vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent child=Theme |
| 5 | **offer** *a condition, not said to happen* | past | tree |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **caress** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | tree *not said here* | children *= child* |  |  |  |  | vn touch-20-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Experiencer |

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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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