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description: God has hidden them in mercy from our sight, and it is impious to rend the veil by which they are concealed.” Who acts: it, veil, our. 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 
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Story of the Marvellous and Portentous Tower., sentence 54

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God has hidden them in mercy from our sight, and it is impious to rend the veil by which they are concealed.”

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**Who acts:** it, veil, our · **What happens:** hide, be, rend, conceal, sight · **To what, where:** God, mercy, veil, decrees

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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 (it, veil, our), 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:pg77685:8:54
# text = God has hidden them in mercy from our sight, and it is impious to rend the veil by which they are concealed.”
1	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	hidden	hide	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	mercy	mercy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	from	from	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	sight	sight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
12	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
14	impious	impious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	rend	rend	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	csubj	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	veil	veil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	by	by	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	23	obl	_	_
21	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
22	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux:pass	_	_
23	concealed	conceal	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hide** | present · perfect · passive |  | God |  | mercy from our sight |  | decrees *= decree* *obj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present | it |  |  |  |  | impious *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **rend** | to-infinitive |  | the veil |  |  |  |  | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent veil=Patient |
| 4 | **conceal** | present · passive | the veil | decrees *= decree* |  |  |  |  | vn concealment-16 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient |
| 5 | **sight** |  | our |  |  |  |  |  | nom sight «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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