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title: Florinda, the daughter of his heart, for whose sake he had undertake… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: Florinda, the daughter of his heart, for whose sake he had undertaken this signal vengeance, was sinking a victim to its effects. Who acts: Florinda, victim. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Legend of Count Julian and His Family., with its dependency tree and th
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Legend of Count Julian and His Family., sentence 23

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Florinda, the daughter of his heart, for whose sake he had undertaken this signal vengeance, was sinking a victim to its effects.

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**Who acts:** Florinda, victim · **What happens:** undertake, sink, effect · **To what, where:** signal vengeance, victim

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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 (Florinda, victim), 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:pg77685:39:23
# text = Florinda, the daughter of his heart, for whose sake he had undertaken this signal vengeance, was sinking a victim to its effects.
1	Florinda	Florinda	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
5	of	of	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	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	for	for	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	sake	sake	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	undertaken	undertake	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	11	acl:relcl	_	_
15	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	17	det	_	_
16	signal	signal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	vengeance	vengeance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
19	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	sinking	sink	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	victim	victim	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	to	to	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	effects	effect	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	20	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **undertake** | past · perfect | Florinda | this signal vengeance |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent vengeance=Eventuality |
| 2 | **sink** | past · progressive | Florinda | a victim |  |  |  | to victim's effects | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent victim=Patient |
| 3 | **effect** |  | victim |  |  |  |  |  | nom effect «phenomenon transitive»: 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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