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title: In the midst of his exultation, and while the rejoicings of the peop… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: In the midst of his exultation, and while the rejoicings of the people were yet sounding in his ears, the page arrived who bore the letter from his unfortunate daughter. Who acts: rejoicings, page, JULIAN. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Chapter VIII., with its
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter VIII., sentence 20

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In the midst of his exultation, and while the rejoicings of the people were yet sounding in his ears, the page arrived who bore the letter from his unfortunate daughter.

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**Who acts:** rejoicings, page, JULIAN · **What happens:** sound, arrive, bear, exult, rejoice · **To what, where:** ears, midst, letter, people

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This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Chapter VIII.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (rejoicings, page, JULIAN), 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:pg77685:9:20
# text = In the midst of his exultation, and while the rejoicings of the people were yet sounding in his ears, the page arrived who bore the letter from his unfortunate daughter.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	midst	midst	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	exultation	exultation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
9	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	rejoicings	rejoicing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nsubj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nmod	_	_
15	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
16	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	sounding	sound	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	24	advcl	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	ears	ear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	page	page	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
24	arrived	arrive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
25	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	26	nsubj	_	_
26	bore	bear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	conj	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	letter	letter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
29	from	from	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
30	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
31	unfortunate	unfortunate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	24	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sound** | past · progressive | the rejoicings of the people |  |  | JULIAN's ears | yet |  | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in ear=Location |
| 2 | **arrive** | past | the page |  |  | the midst of JULIAN's exultation |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **bear** | past |  | the letter |  |  |  | from JULIAN's unfortunate daughter; who *nsubj* | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent letter=Patient |
| 4 | **exult** |  | JULIAN |  |  |  |  |  | nom exultation «feeling intransitive»: poss=agent |
| 5 | **rejoice** |  |  | the people |  |  |  |  | nom rejoicing «feeling transitive»: of=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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