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title: He assembled round him every pleasure and gratification that boundle… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: He assembled round him every pleasure and gratification that boundless wealth could purchase; but all in vain. Who acts: tree, boundless wealth. 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 
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Legend of Count Julian and His Family., sentence 19

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He assembled round him every pleasure and gratification that boundless wealth could purchase; but all in vain.

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**Who acts:** tree, boundless wealth · **What happens:** assemble, purchase · **To what, where:** pleasure

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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 (tree, boundless wealth), 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:pg77685:39:19
# text = He assembled round him every pleasure and gratification that boundless wealth could purchase; but all in vain.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	assembled	assemble	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	round	round	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obl	_	_
5	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	6	det	_	_
6	pleasure	pleasure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	gratification	gratification	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
9	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	13	obj	_	_
10	boundless	boundless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	wealth	wealth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
12	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	purchase	purchase	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
16	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	18	nsubj	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	vain	vain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **assemble** | past | tree | every pleasure and gratification |  |  |  | round wrong | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent pleasure=Theme |
| 2 | **purchase** | could | boundless wealth | every pleasure and gratification |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset that=Theme |

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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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