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title: The Rise of Don Roderick.—His Government 11 — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: The Rise of Don Roderick.—His Government 11 Who acts: Don. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Opening, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Opening, sentence 30

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The Rise of Don Roderick.—His Government 11

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**Who acts:** Don · **What happens:** rise · **To what, where:** 11

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This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Opening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Don), 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:pg77685:1:30
# text = The Rise of Don Roderick.—His Government 11
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Rise	rise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Don	Don	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	Roderick	Roderick	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	Government	government	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	11	11	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	0	root	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 2 | **rise** |  | Don |  |  |  |  |  | nom rise «event intransitive»: of=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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