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title: The city, adds the ancient chronicler, received the name thus given… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: The city, adds the ancient chronicler, received the name thus given it, though afterwards softened to Malaga, which it still retains, in memory of the tragical end of Florinda. Who acts: city, name. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Legend of Count Julian and His
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Legend of Count Julian and His Family., sentence 37

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The city, adds the ancient chronicler, received the name thus given it, though afterwards softened to Malaga, which it still retains, in memory of the tragical end of Florinda.

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**Who acts:** city, name · **What happens:** add, receive, give, soften, retain · **To what, where:** ancient chronicler, name, city, Malaga, memory

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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 (city, name), 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:pg77685:39:37
# text = The city, adds the ancient chronicler, received the name thus given it, though afterwards softened to Malaga, which it still retains, in memory of the tragical end of Florinda.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	adds	add	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	ancient	ancient	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	chronicler	chronicler	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	received	receive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	acl	_	_
14	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
17	afterwards	afterwards	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	softened	soften	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	conj	_	_
19	to	to	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	Malaga	Malaga	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
22	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	25	obj	_	_
23	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
24	still	still	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
25	retains	retain	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	memory	memory	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	tragical	tragical	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	Florinda	Florinda	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **add** *speech: assert* | present | the city | the ancient chronicler |  |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chronicler=Patient |
| 2 | **receive** | past |  | the name |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent name=Theme |
| 3 | **give** | participle | the name *not said here* | city |  |  |  | thus *property* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 4 | **soften** | participle |  |  | Malaga |  |  | afterwards *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 5 | **retain** | present | city | Malaga |  | memory of the tragical end of Florinda | still |  | tree rules |

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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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