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title: King Roderick listened to the crafty counsel of the bishop, and dete… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: King Roderick listened to the crafty counsel of the bishop, and determined to advance without delay. Who acts: King. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Terror of the Country.—roderick Rouses Himself to Arms., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cl
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Terror of the Country.—roderick Rouses Himself to Arms., sentence 34

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King Roderick listened to the crafty counsel of the bishop, and determined to advance without delay.

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**Who acts:** King · **What happens:** listen, advance

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This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Terror of the Country.—roderick Rouses Himself to Arms.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (King), 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:pg77685:14:34
# text = King Roderick listened to the crafty counsel of the bishop, and determined to advance without delay.
1	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	Roderick	Roderick	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	listened	listen	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	crafty	crafty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	counsel	counsel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	bishop	bishop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	determined	determined	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	advance	advance	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	xcomp	_	_
16	without	without	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	delay	delay	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **listen** | past | King |  |  |  |  | to the crafty counsel of the bishop | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to counsel=Theme |
| 2 | **advance** | to-infinitive | King *not said here* |  |  |  |  | without delay | vn caused\_calibratable\_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient |

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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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