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title: From thence she called to them in piercing accents, expressive of he… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: From thence she called to them in piercing accents, expressive of her insupportable anguish and desperate determination. Who acts: presence. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Legend of Count Julian and His Family., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of e
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Legend of Count Julian and His Family., sentence 34

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From thence she called to them in piercing accents, expressive of her insupportable anguish and desperate determination.

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**Who acts:** presence · **What happens:** call, pierce, anguish · **To what, where:** battlements, piercing accents · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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), 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:pg77685:39:34
# text = From thence she called to them in piercing accents, expressive of her insupportable anguish and desperate determination.
1	From	from	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	thence	thence	ADV	RB	_	4	obl	_	_
3	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	called	call	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obl	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	piercing	pierce	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	amod	_	_
9	accents	accent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	expressive	expressive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
14	insupportable	insupportable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	anguish	anguish	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
17	desperate	desperate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	determination	determination	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **call** | past | presence |  | battlements *= battlement* | piercing accents |  |  | vn animal\_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to they=Recipient |
| 2 | **pierce** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn poke-19-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **anguish** |  | presence |  |  |  |  |  | nom anguish «feeling intransitive»: 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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