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title: They resided in Andalusia, and were now looked to as fit instruments… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: They resided in Andalusia, and were now looked to as fit instruments in the present traitorous conspiracy. Who acts: nephews. 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 55

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They resided in Andalusia, and were now looked to as fit instruments in the present traitorous conspiracy.

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**Who acts:** nephews · **What happens:** reside, look · **To what, where:** Andalusia

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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 (nephews), 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:pg77685:9:55
# text = They resided in Andalusia, and were now looked to as fit instruments in the present traitorous conspiracy.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	resided	reside	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Andalusia	Andalusia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
7	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux:pass	_	_
8	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	9	advmod	_	_
9	looked	look	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	parataxis	_	_
10	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	as	as	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	fit	fit	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	instruments	instrument	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
16	present	present	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
17	traitorous	traitorous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	conspiracy	conspiracy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **reside** | past | nephews *= nephew* |  |  | Andalusia |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in andalusia=Location |
| 2 | **look** | past · passive |  |  |  |  | now | to fit instruments in the present traitorous conspiracy | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: to instrument=Theme |

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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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