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title: She knew of the death of her child, and that her own death was at ha… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: She knew of the death of her child, and that her own death was at hand; but she neither wept nor supplicated. Who acts: sea, own death, child. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Legend of Count Julian and His Family., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Legend of Count Julian and His Family., sentence 162

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She knew of the death of her child, and that her own death was at hand; but she neither wept nor supplicated.

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**Who acts:** sea, own death, child · **What happens:** know, be, weep, supplicate, die · **To what, where:** hand

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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 (sea, own death, child), 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:pg77685:39:162
# text = She knew of the death of her child, and that her own death was at hand; but she neither wept nor supplicated.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	knew	know	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
11	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
12	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
13	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
15	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
16	at	at	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	_
19	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
20	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
21	neither	neither	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	wept	weep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
23	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	24	cc	_	_
24	supplicated	supplicate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **know** | past | sea |  |  |  |  | of the death of sea's child | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of death=Stimulus |
| 2 | **is** | past | sea's own death |  |  | hand |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **weep** | past | sea |  |  |  |  | neither *property* | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **supplicate** | participle | sea *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn beg-58.2-1 «NP V PP.Topic»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **die** |  | sea's child |  |  |  |  |  | nom death «event intransitive»: of=agent |
| 6 | **die** |  | sea |  |  |  |  |  | nom death «event 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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