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title: She was of an age when sorrow cannot long hold sway over the heart. — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: She was of an age when sorrow cannot long hold sway over the heart. Who acts: distress, sorrow. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Of the Loves of Roderick and the Princess Elyata., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Of the Loves of Roderick and the Princess Elyata., sentence 34

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She was of an age when sorrow cannot long hold sway over the heart.

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**Who acts:** distress, sorrow · **What happens:** be, not hold · **To what, where:** sway, heart

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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 (distress, sorrow), 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:pg77685:4:34
# text = She was of an age when sorrow cannot long hold sway over the heart.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	age	age	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
6	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	11	advmod	_	_
7	sorrow	sorrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
8	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	11	advmod	_	_
10	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	11	advmod	_	_
11	hold	hold	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	acl:relcl	_	_
12	sway	sway	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
13	over	over	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **is** | past | distress |  |  |  | of a age |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **hold** | can | sorrow | sway |  | the heart |  | long *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent sway=Theme over heart=Location |

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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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