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title: She charged herself with all the miseries of these disastrous wars;… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: She charged herself with all the miseries of these disastrous wars; the deaths of so many gallant cavaliers; the conquest and perdition of her country. Who acts: presence, many gallant cavaliers. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Legend of Count Julian and His Fa
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Legend of Count Julian and His Family., sentence 28

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She charged herself with all the miseries of these disastrous wars; the deaths of so many gallant cavaliers; the conquest and perdition of her country.

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**Who acts:** presence, many gallant cavaliers · **What happens:** charge, die · **To what, where:** presence

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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 (presence, many gallant cavaliers), 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:pg77685:39:28
# text = She charged herself with all the miseries of these disastrous wars; the deaths of so many gallant cavaliers; the conquest and perdition of her country.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	charged	charge	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	herself	herself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	2	obj	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	7	det:predet	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	miseries	misery	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	11	det	_	_
10	disastrous	disastrous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	wars	war	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	deaths	death	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
16	so	so	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
18	gallant	gallant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	cavaliers	cavalier	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	conquest	conquest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	perdition	perdition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **charge** | past | presence | presence |  |  |  | with all miseries of this disastrous wars; the deaths of many gallant cavaliers *obl*; the conquest of presence's country and perdition *obl* | vn equip-13.4.2 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP»: agent=Agent herself=Recipient with misery=Theme |
| 2 | **die** |  | many gallant cavaliers |  |  |  |  |  | nom death «event intransitive»: of=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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