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title: The youthful cavaliers, however, were eager to pursue the adventure,… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: The youthful cavaliers, however, were eager to pursue the adventure, and encouraged him in his rash curiosity. Who acts: youthful cavaliers. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Story of the Marvellous and Portentous Tower., with its dependency tree and the pragmati
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Story of the Marvellous and Portentous Tower., sentence 21

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The youthful cavaliers, however, were eager to pursue the adventure, and encouraged him in his rash curiosity.

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**Who acts:** youthful cavaliers · **What happens:** be, pursue, encourage · **To what, where:** adventure, mystery, rash curiosity

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This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Story of the Marvellous and Portentous Tower.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (youthful cavaliers), 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:pg77685:8:21
# text = The youthful cavaliers, however, were eager to pursue the adventure, and encouraged him in his rash curiosity.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	youthful	youthful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	cavaliers	cavalier	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	however	however	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
7	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
8	eager	eager	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	pursue	pursue	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	xcomp	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	adventure	adventure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	encouraged	encourage	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
16	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
19	rash	rash	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	curiosity	curiosity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the youthful cavaliers |  |  |  |  | eager, however *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **pursue** | to-infinitive | the youthful cavaliers *not said here* | the adventure |  |  |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent adventure=Theme |
| 3 | **encourage** | past | the youthful cavaliers *not said here* | mystery |  | mystery's rash curiosity |  |  | vn accept-77.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |

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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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