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title: With these dark purposes at heart, but with an open and serene count… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: With these dark purposes at heart, but with an open and serene countenance, he crossed to Spain, and repaired to the court at Toledo. Who acts: treason. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Chapter VIII., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter VIII., sentence 32

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With these dark purposes at heart, but with an open and serene countenance, he crossed to Spain, and repaired to the court at Toledo.

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**Who acts:** treason · **What happens:** cross, repair · **To what, where:** Spain

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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 (treason), 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:pg77685:9:32
# text = With these dark purposes at heart, but with an open and serene countenance, he crossed to Spain, and repaired to the court at Toledo.
1	With	with	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	4	det	_	_
3	dark	dark	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	purposes	purpose	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
8	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
10	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
11	open	open	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	serene	serene	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	conj	_	_
14	countenance	countenance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
16	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	crossed	cross	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	Spain	Spain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	repaired	repair	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	parataxis	_	_
23	to	to	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	court	court	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	_
26	at	at	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	Toledo	Toledo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cross** | past | treason |  |  | Spain |  | with this dark purposes at heart; with a open countenance | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to spain=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **repair** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | to the court at Toledo | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=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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