--- title: Some have perished within the threshold, others have been overwhelme… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics description: Some have perished within the threshold, others have been overwhelmed with horror at tremendous sounds, which shook the foundations of the earth, and have hastened to reclose the door, and secure it with its thousand locks. Who acts: tremendous sounds. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (tremendous sounds), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg77685:7:12 # text = Some have perished within the threshold, others have been overwhelmed with horror at tremendous sounds, which shook the foundations of the earth, and have hastened to reclose the door, and secure it with its thousand locks. 1 Some some DET DT PronType=Ind 3 nsubj:pass _ _ 2 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 aux _ _ 3 perished perish VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 4 within within ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 threshold threshold NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 7 , , PUNCT , _ 11 punct _ _ 8 others other NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 nsubj _ _ 9 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 11 aux _ _ 10 been be AUX VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 11 aux:pass _ _ 11 overwhelmed overwhelm VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 conj _ _ 12 with with ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 horror horror NOUN NN Number=Sing 11 obl _ _ 14 at at ADP IN _ 16 case _ _ 15 tremendous tremendous ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 16 amod _ _ 16 sounds sound NOUN NNS Number=Plur 11 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 18 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 19 nsubj _ _ 19 shook shake VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 16 acl:relcl _ _ 20 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 21 det _ _ 21 foundations foundation NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 obj _ _ 22 of of ADP IN _ 24 case _ _ 23 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 24 det _ _ 24 earth earth NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 25 , , PUNCT , _ 28 punct _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 28 cc _ _ 27 have have AUX VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 28 aux _ _ 28 hastened hasten VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 19 conj _ _ 29 to to PART TO _ 30 mark _ _ 30 reclose reclose VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 28 xcomp _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 32 det _ _ 32 door door NOUN NN Number=Sing 30 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 35 secure secure VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 36 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 obj _ _ 37 with with ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 38 its its PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 40 nmod:poss _ _ 39 thousand thousand NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 40 nummod _ _ 40 locks lock NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 41 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **perish** | present · perfect · passive | | Some | | | | within the threshold | tree rules | | 2 | **overwhelm** | present · perfect · passive | | others | | tremendous sounds | | with horror | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | | 3 | **shake** | past | tremendous sounds | the foundations of the earth | | | | | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent foundation=Patient | | 4 | **hasten** | present · perfect | tremendous sounds *not said here* | | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **reclose** | to-infinitive | tremendous sounds *not said here* | the door | | | | | tree rules | | 6 | **secure** | infinitive | | door | | | | with door's thousand locks | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent it=Patient with lock=Co-Patient | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 11](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77685/7/11/) - next →: [sentence 13](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77685/7/13/) - ↑ back to [Don Roderick Receives an Extraordinary Embassy.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77685/7/)