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title: There was neither wood, nor any other common or base material to be… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: There was neither wood, nor any other common or base material to be seen throughout the edifice. Who acts: wood. 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 pragmatics of every clause.
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Story of the Marvellous and Portentous Tower., sentence 44

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There was neither wood, nor any other common or base material to be seen throughout the edifice.

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**Who acts:** wood · **What happens:** be, see

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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 (wood), 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:pg77685:8:44
# text = There was neither wood, nor any other common or base material to be seen throughout the edifice.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	neither	neither	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	4	cc:preconj	_	_
4	wood	wood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
6	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	12	cc	_	_
7	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	12	det	_	_
8	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
9	common	common	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
10	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	base	base	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	_
12	material	material	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	parataxis	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
14	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	aux:pass	_	_
15	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	acl	_	_
16	throughout	throughout	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	edifice	edifice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | past | wood |  |  | there |  | any other common base material *parataxis* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **see** | to-infinitive · passive | wood *not said here* |  |  |  | throughout the edifice |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V» |

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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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