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title: We have seen, in brief space of time, most of the actors in this his… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: We have seen, in brief space of time, most of the actors in this historic drama disappearing, one by one, from the scene, and going down, conqueror and conquered, to gloomy and unhonoured graves. Who acts: We, historic drama. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Leg
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Legend of Count Julian and His Family., sentence 3

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We have seen, in brief space of time, most of the actors in this historic drama disappearing, one by one, from the scene, and going down, conqueror and conquered, to gloomy and unhonoured graves.

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**Who acts:** We, historic drama · **What happens:** see, disappear, go down, conquer · **To what, where:** brief space, one, scene, conqueror

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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 (We, historic drama), 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:pg77685:39:3
# text = We have seen, in brief space of time, most of the actors in this historic drama disappearing, one by one, from the scene, and going down, conqueror and conquered, to gloomy and unhonoured graves.
1	We	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	brief	brief	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	space	space	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	7	appos	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	actors	actor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nmod	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	18	det	_	_
17	historic	historic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	drama	drama	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
19	disappearing	disappear	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	18	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	19	obl	_	_
22	by	by	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	from	from	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	scene	scene	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	conj	_	_
31	down	down	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
33	conqueror	conqueror	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
35	conquered	conquer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
37	to	to	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
38	gloomy	gloomy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	amod	_	_
39	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
40	unhonoured	unhonoured	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	conj	_	_
41	graves	grave	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | present · perfect | We | brief space of time |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer space=Stimulus |
| 2 | **disappear** | gerund | this historic drama *not said here* | one by one |  | the scene |  |  | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme from scene=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **go down** | gerund | We *not said here* | conqueror |  |  |  | down *property* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 4 | **conquer** | past | We *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to gloomy graves | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=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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