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title: Seating himself beside the fountain, he called Florinda to him to dr… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: Seating himself beside the fountain, he called Florinda to him to draw forth a thorn which had pierced his hand. Who acts: heart. 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 36

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Seating himself beside the fountain, he called Florinda to him to draw forth a thorn which had pierced his hand.

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**Who acts:** heart · **What happens:** seat, call, draw, pierce · **To what, where:** heart, fountain, Florinda, thorn · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (heart), 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:pg77685:6:36
# text = Seating himself beside the fountain, he called Florinda to him to draw forth a thorn which had pierced his hand.
1	Seating	seat	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
2	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	1	obj	_	_
3	beside	beside	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	fountain	fountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	called	call	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	Florinda	Florinda	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obl	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	draw	draw	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	8	advcl	_	_
14	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	thorn	thorn	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
17	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	19	nsubj:pass	_	_
18	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	pierced	pierce	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	acl:relcl	_	_
20	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **seat** | gerund | heart *not said here* | heart |  | the fountain |  |  | vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP»: agent=Location himself=Value |
| 2 | **call** | past | heart | Florinda | Florinda |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent florinda=Topic to he=Recipient |
| 3 | **draw** | to-infinitive | heart *not said here* | a thorn |  |  |  | forth *property* | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thorn=Theme |
| 4 | **pierce** | past · perfect · passive |  | a thorn |  |  |  | heart's hand *obj* | tree rules |

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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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