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title: It is a story full of wholesome admonition, rebuking the insolence o… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: It is a story full of wholesome admonition, rebuking the insolence of human pride, and the vanity of human ambition, and showing the futility of all greatness that is not strongly based on virtue. Who acts: story. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Legend of Count
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Legend of Count Julian and His Family., sentence 2

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It is a story full of wholesome admonition, rebuking the insolence of human pride, and the vanity of human ambition, and showing the futility of all greatness that is not strongly based on virtue.

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**Who acts:** story · **What happens:** be, rebuke, show, not be · **To what, where:** story, insolence, futility, greatness, virtue

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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 (story), 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:pg77685:39:2
# text = It is a story full of wholesome admonition, rebuking the insolence of human pride, and the vanity of human ambition, and showing the futility of all greatness that is not strongly based on virtue.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	story	story	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	wholesome	wholesome	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	admonition	admonition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	rebuking	rebuke	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	appos	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	insolence	insolence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	human	human	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	pride	pride	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	vanity	vanity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	human	human	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	ambition	ambition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	showing	show	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	conj	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	futility	futility	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	30	det	_	_
30	greatness	greatness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	_
31	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	35	nsubj:pass	_	_
32	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	35	cop	_	_
33	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	35	advmod	_	_
34	strongly	strongly	ADV	RB	_	35	advmod	_	_
35	based	base	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	30	acl:relcl	_	_
36	on	on	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	virtue	virtue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 a** | present | story | a story |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **rebuke** | gerund |  | the insolence of human pride and the vanity of human ambition |  |  |  |  | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent insolence=Theme |
| 3 | **show** | gerund |  | the futility of all greatness |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent futility=Recipient |
| 4 | **not** **is** | present · passive |  | all greatness |  | virtue |  | base, strongly *property* | tree rules |

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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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