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title: “The guardianship of the portal was given to our ancestors, and has… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: “The guardianship of the portal was given to our ancestors, and has continued in our family, from generation to generation, since the days of Hercules. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Don Roderick Receives an Extraordinary Embassy., with its dependency tree and
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Don Roderick Receives an Extraordinary Embassy., sentence 10

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“The guardianship of the portal was given to our ancestors, and has continued in our family, from generation to generation, since the days of Hercules.

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**What happens:** give, continue · **To what, where:** guardianship, ancestors, family

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This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Don Roderick Receives an Extraordinary Embassy.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg77685:7:10
# text = “The guardianship of the portal was given to our ancestors, and has continued in our family, from generation to generation, since the days of Hercules.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	guardianship	guardianship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	portal	portal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux:pass	_	_
8	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	ancestors	ancestor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	continued	continue	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	8	conj	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	from	from	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	generation	generation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
22	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	generation	generation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	since	since	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	Hercules	Hercules	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** *in a quote* | past · passive |  | the guardianship of the portal | our ancestors |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Theme to ancestor=Recipient |
| 2 | **continue** *in a quote* | present · perfect |  |  |  | our family | from generation to generation; day |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from generation=Initial\_Location |

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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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