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title: Their snowy beards descended to their breasts, and their gray hairs… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: Their snowy beards descended to their breasts, and their gray hairs were bound with ivy. Who acts: snowy beards. 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 5

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Their snowy beards descended to their breasts, and their gray hairs were bound with ivy.

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**Who acts:** snowy beards · **What happens:** descend, bind · **To what, where:** breasts, gray hairs

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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 (snowy beards), 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:pg77685:7:5
# text = Their snowy beards descended to their breasts, and their gray hairs were bound with ivy.
1	Their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
2	snowy	snowy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	beards	beard	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	descended	descend	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	breasts	breast	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
10	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
11	gray	gray	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	hairs	hair	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj:pass	_	_
13	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux:pass	_	_
14	bound	bind	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
15	with	with	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	ivy	ivy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **descend** | participle | men's snowy beards |  |  | men's breasts |  |  | vn meander-47.7-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to breast=Location |
| 2 | **bind** | past · passive |  | men's gray hairs |  |  |  | with ivy | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: subject=Patient with ivy=Co-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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