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title: When her father sought to embrace her, she withdrew with shuddering… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: When her father sought to embrace her, she withdrew with shuddering from his arms; for she thought of his treason, and the ruin it had brought upon Spain. Who acts: father, presence. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Legend of Count Julian and His Family., with i
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Legend of Count Julian and His Family., sentence 31

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When her father sought to embrace her, she withdrew with shuddering from his arms; for she thought of his treason, and the ruin it had brought upon Spain.

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**Who acts:** father, presence · **What happens:** seek, embrace, withdraw, shudder, think, bring · **To what, where:** presence, ruin

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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 (father, presence), 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:pg77685:39:31
# text = When her father sought to embrace her, she withdrew with shuddering from his arms; for she thought of his treason, and the ruin it had brought upon Spain.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
2	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	sought	seek	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	embrace	embrace	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
7	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
9	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	withdrew	withdraw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	with	with	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
12	shuddering	shudder	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	_
13	from	from	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	arms	arm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
17	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
18	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	parataxis	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	treason	treason	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	ruin	ruin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nsubj:pass	_	_
27	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj:pass	_	_
28	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
29	brought	bring	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	conj	_	_
30	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	Spain	Spain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **seek** | past | presence's father |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **embrace** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | presence's father *not said here* | presence |  |  |  |  | vn marry-36.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Co-Agent |
| 3 | **withdraw** | past | presence |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **shudder** | gerund | presence *not said here* |  |  |  |  | from father's arms | vn body\_internal\_states-40.6 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer from arm=Stimulus |
| 5 | **think** *speech: other* | past | presence |  |  |  |  | of father's treason | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **bring** | past · perfect · passive |  | the ruin |  |  |  | upon Spain | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: subject=Theme |

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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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