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title: Don Roderick receives an extraordinary Embassy 44 — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: Don Roderick receives an extraordinary Embassy 44 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 38

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Don Roderick receives an extraordinary Embassy 44

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**Who acts:** Don · **What happens:** receive · **To what, where:** extraordinary Embassy

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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:pg77685:1:38
# text = Don Roderick receives an extraordinary Embassy 44
1	Don	Don	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	Roderick	Roderick	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	receives	receive	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	extraordinary	extraordinary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	Embassy	embassy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
7	44	44	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	6	flat	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **receive** | present | Don | a extraordinary Embassy |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent embassy=Theme |

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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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