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title: She was a woman majestic in person and eloquent of tongue; and being… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: She was a woman majestic in person and eloquent of tongue; and being inspired by a mother’s feelings, her speech aroused the assembled cavaliers to fury. Who acts: Frandina, feelings, speech. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Chapter VIII., with its dependency tr
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter VIII., sentence 61

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She was a woman majestic in person and eloquent of tongue; and being inspired by a mother’s feelings, her speech aroused the assembled cavaliers to fury.

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**Who acts:** Frandina, feelings, speech · **What happens:** be, inspire, arouse, assemble, speak · **To what, where:** assembled cavaliers · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Frandina, feelings, speech), 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:pg77685:9:61
# text = She was a woman majestic in person and eloquent of tongue; and being inspired by a mother’s feelings, her speech aroused the assembled cavaliers to fury.
1	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	majestic	majestic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	person	person	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	eloquent	eloquent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	tongue	tongue	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	aux:pass	_	_
15	inspired	inspire	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	_
16	by	by	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	’s	's	PART	POS	_	18	case	_	_
20	feelings	feeling	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	speech	speech	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
24	aroused	arouse	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	assembled	assemble	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	27	amod	_	_
27	cavaliers	cavalier	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obj	_	_
28	to	to	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	fury	fury	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Frandina |  |  |  |  | in person; a woman *nsubj*; majestic *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | Frandina *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of tongue | tree rules |
| 3 | **inspire** | gerund · passive | a mother's feelings |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **arouse** | past | Frandina's speech | the assembled cavaliers |  |  |  | to fury | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus cavalier=Experiencer |
| 5 | **assemble** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **speak** |  | Frandina |  |  |  |  |  | nom speech «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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