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title: Being now in his own domains, surrounded by his relatives and friend… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: Being now in his own domains, surrounded by his relatives and friends, Count Julian went on to complete his web of treason. Who acts: own domains, Julian. 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 52

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Being now in his own domains, surrounded by his relatives and friends, Count Julian went on to complete his web of treason.

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**Who acts:** own domains, Julian · **What happens:** be, surround, count, go on, complete · **To what, where:** own domains, web

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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 (own domains, 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:pg77685:9:52
# text = Being now in his own domains, surrounded by his relatives and friends, Count Julian went on to complete his web of treason.
1	Being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	cop	_	_
2	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	advmod	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
5	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	domains	domain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	surrounded	surround	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl	_	_
9	by	by	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	relatives	relative	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl:agent	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
15	Count	count	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
16	Julian	Julian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
17	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	ccomp	_	_
18	on	on	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	complete	complete	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	advcl	_	_
21	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	web	web	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	treason	treason	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | gerund |  |  |  | satisfied's own domains | now | satisfied *nmod:poss* | tree rules |
| 2 | **surround** | participle |  | satisfied's own domains *not said here* |  |  |  | satisfied's relatives and friends *obl:agent* | vn contiguous\_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **count** | infinitive | satisfied's own domains |  |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent clause=Attribute |
| 4 | **go on** | past | Julian |  |  |  |  |  | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **complete** | to-infinitive | Julian *not said here* | satisfied's web of treason |  |  |  |  | vn complete-55.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent web=Eventuality |

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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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