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title: Thou hast represented thy king as detested by his subjects, and surr… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: Thou hast represented thy king as detested by his subjects, and surrounded by secret treason, but I behold his tents whitening the hills and dales, while thousands are hourly flocking to his standard. Who acts: I, tents, thousands. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irvin
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Traitorous Message of Count Julian., sentence 5

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Thou hast represented thy king as detested by his subjects, and surrounded by secret treason, but I behold his tents whitening the hills and dales, while thousands are hourly flocking to his standard.

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**Who acts:** I, tents, thousands · **What happens:** represent, detest, surround, behol, whiten, flock · **To what, where:** Thou, tents, hills

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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 (I, tents, thousands), 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:pg77685:17:5
# text = Thou hast represented thy king as detested by his subjects, and surrounded by secret treason, but I behold his tents whitening the hills and dales, while thousands are hourly flocking to his standard.
1	Thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	hast	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	represented	represent	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	7	mark	_	_
7	detested	detest	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	advcl	_	_
8	by	by	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	subjects	subject	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	surrounded	surround	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
14	by	by	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	secret	secret	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	treason	treason	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl:agent	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	behold	behol	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
21	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	tents	tent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obj	_	_
23	whitening	whiten	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	22	acl	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	hills	hill	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obj	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	dales	dale	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
29	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	33	mark	_	_
30	thousands	thousand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	nsubj	_	_
31	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	33	aux	_	_
32	hourly	hourly	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
33	flocking	flock	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	20	advcl	_	_
34	to	to	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	36	nmod:poss	_	_
36	standard	standard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **represent** | present · passive |  | Thou |  |  |  | thy king *obj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **detest** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | by defiance's subjects | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **surround** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | secret treason *obl:agent* | vn contiguous\_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **behol** | past | I | defiance's tents |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **whiten** | gerund | defiance's tents *not said here* | the hills and dales |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent hill=Patient |
| 6 | **flock** | present · progressive | thousands |  |  |  |  | to defiance's standard; hourly *property* | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V»: agent=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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