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title: Thus, since the days of Hercules, the inmost recesses of the pile ha… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: Thus, since the days of Hercules, the inmost recesses of the pile have never been penetrated by mortal man, and a profound mystery continues to prevail over this great enchantment. Who acts: mortal man, profound mystery. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Don Rode
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Don Roderick Receives an Extraordinary Embassy., sentence 13

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Thus, since the days of Hercules, the inmost recesses of the pile have never been penetrated by mortal man, and a profound mystery continues to prevail over this great enchantment.

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**Who acts:** mortal man, profound mystery · **What happens:** not penetrate, continue, prevail, recess · **To what, where:** great enchantment, pile

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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: who acts (mortal man, profound mystery), 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:pg77685:7:13
# text = Thus, since the days of Hercules, the inmost recesses of the pile have never been penetrated by mortal man, and a profound mystery continues to prevail over this great enchantment.
1	Thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	since	since	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Hercules	Hercules	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	inmost	inmost	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	recesses	recess	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	appos	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	pile	pile	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
15	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
16	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	18	advmod	_	_
17	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	18	aux:pass	_	_
18	penetrated	penetrate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
19	by	by	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	mortal	mortal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	profound	profound	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	mystery	mystery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
27	continues	continue	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	conj	_	_
28	to	to	PART	TO	_	29	mark	_	_
29	prevail	prevail	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	xcomp	_	_
30	over	over	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
31	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	33	det	_	_
32	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	enchantment	enchantment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **penetrate** | present · perfect · passive | mortal man |  |  |  | day | thus *property* | vn poke-19 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **continue** | present | a profound mystery |  |  |  |  |  | vn continue-55.3 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **prevail** | to-infinitive | a profound mystery *not said here* |  |  | this great enchantment |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over enchantment=Location |
| 4 | **recess** |  |  | the pile |  |  |  |  | nom recess «state transitive»: of=patient |

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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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