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title: He had no relish for the dainties of his board; music had no charm w… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: He had no relish for the dainties of his board; music had no charm wherewith to lull his soul, and remorse drove slumber from his pillow. Who acts: tree, music, charm, remorse. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Legend of Count Julian and His Family., with its dep
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Legend of Count Julian and His Family., sentence 20

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He had no relish for the dainties of his board; music had no charm wherewith to lull his soul, and remorse drove slumber from his pillow.

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**Who acts:** tree, music, charm, remorse · **What happens:** have, lull, drive · **To what, where:** relish, charm, soul, slumber, pillow

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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, music, charm, remorse), 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:pg77685:39:20
# text = He had no relish for the dainties of his board; music had no charm wherewith to lull his soul, and remorse drove slumber from his pillow.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	4	det	_	_
4	relish	relish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	dainties	dainty	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	board	board	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
12	music	music	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
14	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	15	det	_	_
15	charm	charm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	wherewith	wherewith	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	18	advmod	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	lull	lull	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	xcomp	_	_
19	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	soul	soul	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
23	remorse	remorse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
24	drove	drive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
25	slumber	slumber	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
26	from	from	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	pillow	pillow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	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 | **have** | past | tree | no relish |  |  |  | for the dainties of tree's board | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent relish=Patient |
| 2 | **have** | past | music | no charm |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **lull** | to-infinitive | no charm *not said here* | tree's soul |  |  |  | wherewith *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus soul=Experiencer |
| 4 | **drive** | past | remorse | slumber |  | tree's pillow |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent slumber=Theme from pillow=Trajectory |

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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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