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title: When thou art admitted to the presence of the bishop, show him this… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: When thou art admitted to the presence of the bishop, show him this ring, and he will commune with thee in secret. Who acts: you, Cordova. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Traitorous Message of Count Julian., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every 
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Traitorous Message of Count Julian., sentence 13

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When thou art admitted to the presence of the bishop, show him this ring, and he will commune with thee in secret.

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**Who acts:** you, Cordova · **What happens:** admit, show, commune · **To what, where:** thou, presence, ring, Cordova, secret

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This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Traitorous Message of Count Julian.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, Cordova), 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:pg77685:17:13
# text = When thou art admitted to the presence of the bishop, show him this ring, and he will commune with thee in secret.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
2	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	art	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	admitted	admit	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	advcl	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	presence	presence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	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	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	show	show	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	iobj	_	_
14	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	15	det	_	_
15	ring	ring	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
18	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
19	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
20	commune	commune	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	conj	_	_
21	with	with	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	20	obl	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	secret	secret	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **admit** *speech: other* | present · passive |  | thou | the presence of the bishop |  |  |  | vn confess-37.10 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Topic to presence=Recipient |
| 2 | **show** | imperative | you *not said here* | this ring | Cordova |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient ring=Topic |
| 3 | **commune** | future | Cordova |  |  | secret |  | with thee | tree rules |

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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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