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title: Doubtless, in this tower are locked up treasures of gold and jewels,… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: Doubtless, in this tower are locked up treasures of gold and jewels, amassed in days of old, the spoils of mighty kings, the riches of the pagan world. 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 25

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Doubtless, in this tower are locked up treasures of gold and jewels, amassed in days of old, the spoils of mighty kings, the riches of the pagan world.

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**What happens:** lock up, amass, spoil, treasure · **To what, where:** Doubtless, treasures, gold

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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:pg77685:7:25
# text = Doubtless, in this tower are locked up treasures of gold and jewels, amassed in days of old, the spoils of mighty kings, the riches of the pagan world.
1	Doubtless	Doubtless	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	det	_	_
5	tower	tower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
6	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	locked	lock	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
8	up	up	ADP	RP	_	7	compound:prt	_	_
9	treasures	treasure	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	jewels	jewel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	amassed	amass	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	acl	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	spoils	spoil	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	parataxis	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	mighty	mighty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	kings	king	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	riches	rich	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	conj	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	pagan	pagan	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lock up** | present · passive |  | Doubtless |  |  |  | treasures of gold and jewels *obj* | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP ADJP»: subject=Patient treasure=Result |
| 2 | **amass** | participle |  | treasures of gold and jewels *not said here* |  |  | day |  | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **spoil** | present |  |  |  |  |  | of mighty kings and the riches of the pagan world | vn entity\_specific\_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **treasure** |  |  | gold |  |  |  |  | nom treasure «possession 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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