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title: In passing through a small oratory, he was drawn by the sound of fem… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: In passing through a small oratory, he was drawn by the sound of female voices to a casement overhung with myrtles and jessamines. Who acts: sound. 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 clau
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, The Story of Florinda., sentence 17

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In passing through a small oratory, he was drawn by the sound of female voices to a casement overhung with myrtles and jessamines.

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**Who acts:** sound · **What happens:** pass, draw, overhang · **To what, where:** small oratory, king, casement

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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 (sound), 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:pg77685:6:17
# text = In passing through a small oratory, he was drawn by the sound of female voices to a casement overhung with myrtles and jessamines.
1	In	in	SCONJ	IN	_	2	mark	_	_
2	passing	pass	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	_
3	through	through	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	oratory	oratory	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux:pass	_	_
10	drawn	draw	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
11	by	by	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	sound	sound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	female	female	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	voices	voice	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	casement	casement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
20	overhung	overhang	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	acl	_	_
21	with	with	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	myrtles	myrtle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	jessamines	jessamine	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pass** | gerund | the sound of female voices *not said here* |  |  | a small oratory |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme through oratory=Location |
| 2 | **draw** | past · passive | the sound of female voices | king |  | a casement |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent subject=Theme to casement=Destination |
| 3 | **overhang** | participle |  | a casement *not said here* |  |  |  | with myrtles and jessamines | vn contiguous\_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: 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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