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title: The charm of perfect privacy also reigned throughout the place; for… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: The charm of perfect privacy also reigned throughout the place; for the garden walls were high, and numerous guards kept watch without to protect it from all intrusion. Who acts: charm, garden walls, numerous guards. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, The Story of
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, The Story of Florinda., sentence 6

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The charm of perfect privacy also reigned throughout the place; for the garden walls were high, and numerous guards kept watch without to protect it from all intrusion.

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**Who acts:** charm, garden walls, numerous guards · **What happens:** reign, be, keep, protect · **To what, where:** watch

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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 (charm, garden walls, numerous guards), 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:pg77685:6:6
# text = The charm of perfect privacy also reigned throughout the place; for the garden walls were high, and numerous guards kept watch without to protect it from all intrusion.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	charm	charm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	perfect	perfect	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	privacy	privacy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	also	also	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	reigned	reign	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	throughout	throughout	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
12	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	garden	garden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	walls	wall	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	_
16	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	cop	_	_
17	high	high	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
20	numerous	numerous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	guards	guard	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	_
22	kept	keep	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	acl	_	_
23	watch	watch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
24	without	without	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
26	protect	protect	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	advcl	_	_
27	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obj	_	_
28	from	from	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	30	det	_	_
30	intrusion	intrusion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reign** | past | the charm of perfect privacy |  |  |  | throughout the place |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | past | the garden walls |  |  |  |  | numerous guards *obl*; high *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **keep** | participle | numerous guards *not said here* | watch |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent watch=Theme |
| 4 | **protect** | to-infinitive | numerous guards *not said here* | watch |  |  |  | from all intrusion | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent it=Beneficiary from intrusion=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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