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title: It was a custom among the Goths to rear many of the children of the… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: It was a custom among the Goths to rear many of the children of the most illustrious families in the royal household. Who acts: confidence. 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 13

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It was a custom among the Goths to rear many of the children of the most illustrious families in the royal household.

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**Who acts:** confidence · **What happens:** be, rear · **To what, where:** custom, many

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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 (confidence), 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:pg77685:5:13
# text = It was a custom among the Goths to rear many of the children of the most illustrious families in the royal household.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	custom	custom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	among	among	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	Goths	Goth	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	rear	rear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	acl	_	_
10	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	obj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
16	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	17	advmod	_	_
17	illustrious	illustrious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	families	family	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	royal	royal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	household	household	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | confidence | a custom |  |  |  | among the Goths | tree rules |
| 2 | **rear** | to-infinitive |  | many of the children of the illustrious families in the royal household |  |  |  |  | vn rear-26.2.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent many=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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