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title: The Countess Frandina seconded his words. — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: The Countess Frandina seconded his words. Who acts: Countess Frandina, 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 60

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The Countess Frandina seconded his words.

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**Who acts:** Countess Frandina, JULIAN · **What happens:** second, word · **To what, where:** words

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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 (Countess Frandina, 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:pg77685:9:60
# text = The Countess Frandina seconded his words.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Countess	Countess	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	Frandina	Frandina	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	seconded	second	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **second** | past | the Countess Frandina | JULIAN's words |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **word** |  | JULIAN |  |  |  |  |  | nom word «communication transitive»: poss=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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