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title: One obstacle remained to the complete fruition of the monarch’s wish… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: One obstacle remained to the complete fruition of the monarch’s wishes, and this was the religion of the princess. Who acts: this, wishes, monarch. 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 t
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Of the Loves of Roderick and the Princess Elyata., sentence 37

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One obstacle remained to the complete fruition of the monarch’s wishes, and this was the religion of the princess.

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**Who acts:** this, wishes, monarch · **What happens:** remain, be, fruit, wish · **To what, where:** One obstacle, religion

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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 (this, wishes, monarch), 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:pg77685:4:37
# text = One obstacle remained to the complete fruition of the monarch’s wishes, and this was the religion of the princess.
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	obstacle	obstacle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	remained	remain	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	complete	complete	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	fruition	fruition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	monarch	monarch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	’s	's	PART	POS	_	10	case	_	_
12	wishes	wish	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
15	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	18	nsubj	_	_
16	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	religion	religion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **remain** | participle |  | One obstacle and the religion *not said here* |  |  |  | to the complete fruition of the monarch's wishes | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is a** | past | this | the religion |  |  |  | of the princess | tree rules |
| 4 | **fruit** |  | the monarch's wishes |  |  |  |  |  | nom fruition «state intransitive»: of=agent |
| 5 | **wish** |  | the monarch |  |  |  |  |  | nom wish «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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