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title: Then gathering around him those who were of his blood and kindred, h… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: Then gathering around him those who were of his blood and kindred, he revealed the outrage that had been offered to their house. Who acts: 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 58

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Then gathering around him those who were of his blood and kindred, he revealed the outrage that had been offered to their house.

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**Who acts:** JULIAN · **What happens:** gather, be, reveal, offer · **To what, where:** those, outrage, house

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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 (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:pg77685:9:58
# text = Then gathering around him those who were of his blood and kindred, he revealed the outrage that had been offered to their house.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	2	advmod	_	_
2	gathering	gather	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	advcl	_	_
3	around	around	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obl	_	_
5	those	that	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	2	obj	_	_
6	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	10	nsubj	_	_
7	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	acl:relcl	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	kindred	kindred	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	revealed	reveal	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	outrage	outrage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	21	nsubj:pass	_	_
19	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
20	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	21	aux:pass	_	_
21	offered	offer	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	acl:relcl	_	_
22	to	to	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	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 | **gather** | gerund | JULIAN *not said here* | those |  |  | then | around JULIAN | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | of JULIAN's blood; who *nsubj*; JULIAN *nmod:poss* | tree rules |
| 3 | **be** |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **reveal** | past | JULIAN | the outrage |  |  |  |  | vn confess-37.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent outrage=Topic |
| 5 | **offer** | past · perfect · passive |  | the outrage |  |  |  | to appellation's house *goal* | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: subject=Theme to house=Goal |

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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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