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title: Your predecessors for many generations have respected this mystery,… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: Your predecessors for many generations have respected this mystery, and have increased in might and empire. 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 clause.
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Don Roderick Receives an Extraordinary Embassy., sentence 21

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Your predecessors for many generations have respected this mystery, and have increased in might and empire.

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**What happens:** respect, increase · **To what, where:** predecessors

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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:pg77685:7:21
# text = Your predecessors for many generations have respected this mystery, and have increased in might and empire.
1	Your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	predecessors	predecessor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	for	for	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	generations	generation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
6	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
7	respected	respect	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
8	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	9	det	_	_
9	mystery	mystery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	increased	increase	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	7	conj	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	empire	empire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **respect** | present · perfect · passive |  | Your predecessors for many generations |  |  |  | this mystery *obj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **increase** | present · perfect |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn caused\_calibratable\_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=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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