---
title: It was filled with the smoke of perfumes: squares and circles and va… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: It was filled with the smoke of perfumes: squares and circles and various diagrams were described upon the floor; and the astrologer was poring over a scroll of parchment covered with cabalistic characters. Who acts: smoke, astrologer, perfumes. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Wa
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77685/39/52/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Legends of the conquest of Spain](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77685/) / [Legend of Count Julian and His Family.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77685/39/) / 52

# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Legend of Count Julian and His Family., sentence 52

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
It was filled with the smoke of perfumes: squares and circles and various diagrams were described upon the floor; and the astrologer was poring over a scroll of parchment covered with cabalistic characters.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** smoke, astrologer, perfumes · **What happens:** fill, describe, pore, cover, smoke · **To what, where:** cell, squares, scroll, parchment

<!-- .vabout -->
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 (smoke, astrologer, perfumes), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

<!-- .note-en -->
**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg77685:39:52
# text = It was filled with the smoke of perfumes: squares and circles and various diagrams were described upon the floor; and the astrologer was poring over a scroll of parchment covered with cabalistic characters.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	filled	fill	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	smoke	smoke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	perfumes	perfume	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
10	squares	square	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj:pass	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	circles	circle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	various	various	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	diagrams	diagram	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	conj	_	_
16	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux:pass	_	_
17	described	describe	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl:relcl	_	_
18	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	floor	floor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	26	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	astrologer	astrologer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
25	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	poring	pore	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
27	over	over	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	scroll	scroll	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	parchment	parchment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	_
32	covered	cover	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	31	acl	_	_
33	with	with	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	cabalistic	cabalistic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	characters	character	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fill** | past · passive |  | cell |  |  |  | with the smoke of perfumes | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with smoke=Instrument |
| 2 | **describe** | past · passive | the smoke of perfumes *not said here* | squares and circles and various diagrams |  |  |  | upon the floor | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: subject=Theme |
| 3 | **pore** | past · progressive | the astrologer |  |  | a scroll of parchment |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **cover** | participle |  | parchment *not said here* |  |  |  | with cabalistic characters | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with character=Theme |
| 5 | **smoke** |  | perfumes |  |  |  |  |  | nom smoke «phenomenon intransitive»: of=agent |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 51](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77685/39/51/)
- next →: [sentence 53](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77685/39/53/)
- ↑ back to [Legend of Count Julian and His Family.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77685/39/)