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title: As readers unversed in the Spanish language may wish to know the tes… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: As readers unversed in the Spanish language may wish to know the testimony of the worthy and discreet capuchin friar, Antonio de Fuentalapeña, we subjoin a translation of it. Who acts: readers, we, worthy capuchin friar, translation. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irv
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Note to the Preceding Legend., sentence 8

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As readers unversed in the Spanish language may wish to know the testimony of the worthy and discreet capuchin friar, Antonio de Fuentalapeña, we subjoin a translation of it.

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**Who acts:** readers, we, worthy capuchin friar, translation · **What happens:** unvers, wish, know, subjoin, testify, translate · **To what, where:** readers, Spanish language, testimony, translation

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This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Note to the Preceding Legend.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (readers, we, worthy capuchin friar, translation), 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:pg77685:40:8
# text = As readers unversed in the Spanish language may wish to know the testimony of the worthy and discreet capuchin friar, Antonio de Fuentalapeña, we subjoin a translation of it.
1	As	as	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
2	readers	reader	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
3	unversed	unvers	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	Spanish	Spanish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	language	language	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	may	may	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	wish	wish	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	advcl	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	know	know	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	xcomp	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	testimony	testimony	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
16	worthy	worthy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	discreet	discreet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	conj	_	_
19	capuchin	capuchin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	friar	friar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	Antonio	Antonio	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	appos	_	_
23	de	de	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	flat	_	_
24	Fuentalapeña	Fuentalapeña	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
26	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
27	subjoin	subjoin	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	translation	translation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	27	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **unvers** | participle |  | readers *not said here* |  | the Spanish language |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **wish** | may | readers |  |  |  |  |  | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme |
| 3 | **know** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | readers *not said here* | the testimony of the worthy capuchin friar |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer testimony=Stimulus |
| 4 | **subjoin** | present | we | a translation of translation |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **testify** |  | the worthy capuchin friar |  |  |  |  |  | nom testimony «communication intransitive»: of=agent |
| 6 | **translate** |  | translation |  |  |  |  |  | nom translation «communication intransitive»: of=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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