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title: Count Julian sought to confirm this confidence by every proof of dev… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: Count Julian sought to confirm this confidence by every proof of devotion. Who acts: you, Julian. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Of Count Julian., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Of Count Julian., sentence 12

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Count Julian sought to confirm this confidence by every proof of devotion.

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**Who acts:** you, Julian · **What happens:** count, seek, confirm, proof · **To what, where:** confidence, devotion

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This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Of Count Julian.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, Julian), 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:pg77685:5:12
# text = Count Julian sought to confirm this confidence by every proof of devotion.
1	Count	count	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	Julian	Julian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	sought	seek	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	ccomp	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	confirm	confirm	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
6	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	7	det	_	_
7	confidence	confidence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	by	by	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	10	det	_	_
10	proof	proof	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	devotion	devotion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **count** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent clause=Attribute |
| 2 | **seek** | past | Julian |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **confirm** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Julian *not said here* | this confidence |  |  |  | by every proof of devotion | vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot confidence=Topic |
| 4 | **proof** |  |  | devotion |  |  |  |  | nom proof «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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