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title: It was like an eastern harem, shut up from the foot of man, and wher… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: It was like an eastern harem, shut up from the foot of man, and where the king himself but rarely entered. Who acts: apartment, king. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, The Story of Florinda., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, The Story of Florinda., sentence 14

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It was like an eastern harem, shut up from the foot of man, and where the king himself but rarely entered.

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**Who acts:** apartment, king · **What happens:** be, shut up, enter · **To what, where:** eastern harem, foot

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This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, The Story of Florinda.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (apartment, king), 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:pg77685:6:14
# text = It was like an eastern harem, shut up from the foot of man, and where the king himself but rarely entered.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
3	like	like	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	eastern	eastern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	harem	harem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	shut	shut	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl	_	_
9	up	up	ADP	RP	_	8	compound:prt	_	_
10	from	from	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	foot	foot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
17	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	23	advmod	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
20	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Emp|Reflex=Yes	19	nmod:unmarked	_	_
21	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
22	rarely	rarely	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	entered	enter	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | apartment |  |  |  |  | like a eastern harem | tree rules |
| 2 | **shut up** | participle |  | a eastern harem *not said here* |  | the foot of man |  |  | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **enter** | past | the king  king |  |  |  |  | rarely *property* | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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