---
title: The example of the reverend prelate determined all who might otherwi… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: The example of the reverend prelate determined all who might otherwise have wavered, and they bound themselves by dreadful oaths to be true to the conspiracy. Who acts: example, wealth. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Chapter VIII., with its dependency tree and
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77685/9/67/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Legends of the conquest of Spain](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77685/) / [Chapter VIII.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77685/9/) / 67

# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter VIII., sentence 67

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
The example of the reverend prelate determined all who might otherwise have wavered, and they bound themselves by dreadful oaths to be true to the conspiracy.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** example, wealth · **What happens:** determine, waver, bound, be, exemplify · **To what, where:** all, wealth, reverend prelate

<!-- .vabout -->
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 (example, wealth), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

<!-- .note-en -->
**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg77685:9:67
# text = The example of the reverend prelate determined all who might otherwise have wavered, and they bound themselves by dreadful oaths to be true to the conspiracy.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	example	example	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	reverend	reverend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	prelate	prelate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
7	determined	determine	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	7	obj	_	_
9	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj:pass	_	_
10	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
11	otherwise	otherwise	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
12	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	aux	_	_
13	wavered	waver	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	bound	bound	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
18	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	17	obj	_	_
19	by	by	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	dreadful	dreadful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	oaths	oath	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
23	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	cop	_	_
24	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	advcl	_	_
25	to	to	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	conspiracy	conspiracy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **determine** | past | the example of the reverend prelate | all |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent all=Topic |
| 2 | **waver** | might · perfect · passive |  |  |  |  |  | who *nsubj:pass*; otherwise *property* | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 3 | **bound** | present | wealth | wealth |  |  |  | by dreadful oaths | vn run-51.3.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Initial\_Location themselves=Theme |
| 4 | **is** | to-infinitive | wealth *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to the conspiracy; true *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **exemplify** |  |  | the reverend prelate |  |  |  |  | nom example «cognition transitive»: of=patient |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 66](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77685/9/66/)
- next →: [sentence 68](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77685/9/68/)
- ↑ back to [Chapter VIII.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77685/9/)