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title: Don Roderick was seated with his beauteous queen, Exilona, in the ro… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: Don Roderick was seated with his beauteous queen, Exilona, in the royal palace which crowned the rocky summit of Toledo, when the bearer of ill-tidings came galloping over the bridge of the Tagus. Who acts: royal palace, bearer. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, 
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Terror of the Country.—roderick Rouses Himself to Arms., sentence 5

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Don Roderick was seated with his beauteous queen, Exilona, in the royal palace which crowned the rocky summit of Toledo, when the bearer of ill-tidings came galloping over the bridge of the Tagus.

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**Who acts:** royal palace, bearer · **What happens:** seat, crown, come, gallop · **To what, where:** Don, rocky summit, bridge

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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 (royal palace, bearer), 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:pg77685:14:5
# text = Don Roderick was seated with his beauteous queen, Exilona, in the royal palace which crowned the rocky summit of Toledo, when the bearer of ill-tidings came galloping over the bridge of the Tagus.
1	Don	Don	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	Roderick	Roderick	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	seated	seat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
7	beauteous	beauteous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	queen	queen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	Exilona	Exilona	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	royal	royal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	parataxis	_	_
16	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	17	nsubj	_	_
17	crowned	crown	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	acl:relcl	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	rocky	rocky	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	summit	summit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	Toledo	Toledo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
24	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	31	advmod	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	bearer	bearer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nsubj	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	ill	ill	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	28	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	tidings	tiding	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nmod	_	_
31	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	acl:relcl	_	_
32	galloping	gallop	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	31	xcomp	_	_
33	over	over	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	bridge	bridge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	_
36	of	of	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	Tagus	Tagus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **seat** | past · passive |  | Don |  |  |  | with Don's beauteous queen; the royal palace *parataxis* | vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP»: subject=Value |
| 2 | **crown** | past | the royal palace | the rocky summit of Toledo |  |  |  |  | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent summit=Theme |
| 3 | **come** | past | the bearer of ill tidings |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **gallop** | gerund | the bearer of ill tidings *not said here* |  |  | the bridge of the Tagus |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over bridge=Trajectory |

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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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