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title: It bore the marks of the tempest: the masts were broken, the oars sh… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: It bore the marks of the tempest: the masts were broken, the oars shattered, and fragments of snowy sails and silken awnings were fluttering in the blast. Who acts: galleot, fragments. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Of the Loves of Roderick and the Princess El
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Of the Loves of Roderick and the Princess Elyata., sentence 11

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It bore the marks of the tempest: the masts were broken, the oars shattered, and fragments of snowy sails and silken awnings were fluttering in the blast.

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**Who acts:** galleot, fragments · **What happens:** bear, break, shatter, flutter, mark · **To what, where:** marks, masts, oars, blast, tempest

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This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Of the Loves of Roderick and the Princess Elyata.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (galleot, fragments), 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:pg77685:4:11
# text = It bore the marks of the tempest: the masts were broken, the oars shattered, and fragments of snowy sails and silken awnings were fluttering in the blast.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	bore	bear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	marks	mark	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	tempest	tempest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	masts	mast	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj:pass	_	_
11	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux:pass	_	_
12	broken	break	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	oars	oar	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
16	shattered	shatter	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
19	fragments	fragment	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nsubj	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	snowy	snowy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	sails	sail	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nmod	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
24	silken	silken	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	awnings	awning	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	conj	_	_
26	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
27	fluttering	flutter	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	advcl	_	_
28	in	in	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	blast	blast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bear** | past | galleot | the marks of the tempest |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mark=Patient |
| 2 | **break** | past · passive |  | the masts |  |  |  | the oars *obl* | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 3 | **shatter** | participle |  | the oars *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn break-45.1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **flutter** | past · progressive | fragments of snowy sails and silken awnings |  |  | the blast |  |  | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in blast=Location |
| 5 | **mark** |  |  | the tempest |  |  |  |  | nom mark «cognition transitive»: of=patient |

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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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