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title: The crafty bishop Oppas marked the internal trouble of the king, and… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: The crafty bishop Oppas marked the internal trouble of the king, and thought a favourable moment had arrived to sway him to his purpose. Who acts: crafty bishop, Bishop. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Skirmishing of the Armies.—pelistes and His Son.—pelistes a
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Skirmishing of the Armies.—pelistes and His Son.—pelistes and the Bishop., sentence 26

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The crafty bishop Oppas marked the internal trouble of the king, and thought a favourable moment had arrived to sway him to his purpose.

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**Who acts:** crafty bishop, Bishop · **What happens:** mark, think, arrive, sway, trouble, purpose · **To what, where:** internal trouble, favourable moment, Bishop, king · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Skirmishing of the Armies.—pelistes and His Son.—pelistes and the Bishop.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (crafty bishop, Bishop), 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:pg77685:16:26
# text = The crafty bishop Oppas marked the internal trouble of the king, and thought a favourable moment had arrived to sway him to his purpose.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	crafty	crafty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	bishop	bishop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	Oppas	Oppas	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	_
5	marked	mark	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	internal	internal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	trouble	trouble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	thought	think	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	favourable	favourable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	moment	moment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj:pass	_	_
18	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	arrived	arrive	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	ccomp	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	sway	sway	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	xcomp	_	_
22	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obj	_	_
23	to	to	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	purpose	purpose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mark** | past | the crafty bishop | the internal trouble of the king |  |  |  |  | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent trouble=Destination |
| 2 | **think** *speech: other* | past | the crafty bishop *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 3 | **arrive** | past · perfect · passive |  | a favourable moment |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **sway** | to-infinitive |  | Bishop |  |  |  | to Bishop's purpose | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location he=Theme |
| 5 | **trouble** |  |  | the king |  |  |  |  | nom trouble «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
| 6 | **purpose** |  | Bishop |  |  |  |  |  | nom purpose «cognition intransitive»: poss=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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