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title: All nature, which had been clear and serene, was now in wild uproar. — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: All nature, which had been clear and serene, was now in wild uproar. Who acts: nature. 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 72

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All nature, which had been clear and serene, was now in wild uproar.

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**Who acts:** nature · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** wild uproar

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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 (nature), 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:pg77685:8:72
# text = All nature, which had been clear and serene, was now in wild uproar.
1	All	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	det	_	_
2	nature	nature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
4	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	_
5	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
6	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	7	cop	_	_
7	clear	clear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	serene	serene	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
11	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
12	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	15	advmod	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	uproar	uproar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past · perfect | all nature |  |  |  |  | clear *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | all nature *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** | past | all nature |  |  | wild uproar | now |  | tree rules |

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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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