--- title: He sent to Ceuta for his wife Frandina, his daughter Florinda, and h… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics description: He sent to Ceuta for his wife Frandina, his daughter Florinda, and his youthful son Alarbot; hoping in the bosom of his family to find that sympathy and kindness which he could no longer meet with in the world. Who acts: tree, sympathy. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tree, sympathy), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg77685:39:21 # text = He sent to Ceuta for his wife Frandina, his daughter Florinda, and his youthful son Alarbot; hoping in the bosom of his family to find that sympathy and kindness which he could no longer meet with in the world. 1 He he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 2 nsubj _ _ 2 sent send VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 3 to to ADP IN _ 4 case _ _ 4 Ceuta Ceuta PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 5 for for ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 7 nmod:poss _ _ 7 wife wife NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ _ 8 Frandina Frandina PROPN NNP Number=Sing 7 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 9 , , PUNCT , _ 12 punct _ _ 10 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 11 nmod:poss _ _ 11 daughter daughter NOUN NN Number=Sing 12 nmod:desc _ _ 12 Florinda Florinda PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 13 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 14 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 15 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 17 nmod:poss _ _ 16 youthful youthful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 17 son son NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 vocative _ _ 18 Alarbot Alarbot PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 19 ; ; PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 20 hoping hope VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 2 advcl _ _ 21 in in ADP IN _ 23 case _ _ 22 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 23 det _ _ 23 bosom bosom NOUN NN Number=Sing 20 obl _ _ 24 of of ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 26 nmod:poss _ _ 26 family family NOUN NN Number=Sing 23 nmod _ _ 27 to to PART TO _ 28 mark _ _ 28 find find VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 20 advcl _ _ 29 that that DET DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 30 det _ _ 30 sympathy sympathy NOUN NN Number=Sing 28 obj _ _ 31 and and CCONJ CC _ 32 cc _ _ 32 kindness kindness NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 conj _ _ 33 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 38 nsubj _ _ 34 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 38 nsubj _ _ 35 could could AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 38 aux _ _ 36 no no ADV RB _ 37 advmod _ _ 37 longer long ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 38 advmod _ _ 38 meet meet VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 30 acl:relcl _ _ 39 with with ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 40 in in ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 41 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 42 det _ _ 42 world world NOUN NN Number=Sing 38 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 43 . . PUNCT . _ 2 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **send** | past | tree | Florinda tree's daughter | Ceuta | | | for tree's wife; tree's youthful son *vocative* | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to ceuta=Destination | | 2 | **hope** | gerund | tree *not said here* | | | the bosom of tree's family | | | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot | | 3 | **find** | to-infinitive | tree *not said here* | that sympathy and kindness | | | | | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sympathy=Topic | | 4 | **meet** | could | that sympathy and kindness | | | | | with the world; tree *nsubj*; long *property* | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with world=Co-Agent | | 5 | **bosom** | | | tree's family | | | | | nom bosom «state transitive»: of=patient | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 20](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77685/39/20/) - next →: [sentence 22](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77685/39/22/) - ↑ back to [Legend of Count Julian and His Family.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77685/39/)