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title: Having thus said, the ancient men made a profound reverence and depa… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: Having thus said, the ancient men made a profound reverence and departed from the presence chamber. Who acts: ancient men. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Don Roderick Receives an Extraordinary Embassy., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clau
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Don Roderick Receives an Extraordinary Embassy., sentence 15

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Having thus said, the ancient men made a profound reverence and departed from the presence chamber.

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**Who acts:** ancient men · **What happens:** have, say, make, depart · **To what, where:** profound reverence, presence chamber · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (ancient men), 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:pg77685:7:15
# text = Having thus said, the ancient men made a profound reverence and departed from the presence chamber.
1	Having	have	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
2	thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	said	say	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	ancient	ancient	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
8	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	profound	profound	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	reverence	reverence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	departed	depart	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	conj	_	_
14	from	from	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	presence	presence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	chamber	chamber	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | gerund | the ancient men *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | participle |  |  |  |  |  | thus *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **make** | past | the ancient men | a profound reverence |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reverence=Product |
| 4 | **depart** | participle | the ancient men *not said here* |  |  | the presence chamber |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from chamber=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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