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title: He then sent for the venerable Bishop Urbino, who had accompanied hi… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: He then sent for the venerable Bishop Urbino, who had accompanied him to the camp, and, laying aside his regal crown, he knelt with head uncovered, and confessed his sins before the holy man. Who acts: monarch, venerable Bishop. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, 
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Last Day of the Battle., sentence 9

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He then sent for the venerable Bishop Urbino, who had accompanied him to the camp, and, laying aside his regal crown, he knelt with head uncovered, and confessed his sins before the holy man.

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**Who acts:** monarch, venerable Bishop · **What happens:** send, accompany, lay, kneel, uncover, confess · **To what, where:** monarch, camp, sins

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This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Last Day of the Battle.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (monarch, venerable 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:pg77685:18:9
# text = He then sent for the venerable Bishop Urbino, who had accompanied him to the camp, and, laying aside his regal crown, he knelt with head uncovered, and confessed his sins before the holy man.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
3	sent	send	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	venerable	venerable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	Bishop	Bishop	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	Urbino	Urbino	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj	_	_
11	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	accompanied	accompany	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	7	acl	_	_
13	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	camp	camp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	laying	lay	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	27	advcl	_	_
21	aside	aside	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
23	regal	regal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	crown	crown	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
26	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
27	knelt	kneel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
28	with	with	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	_
30	uncovered	uncover	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	27	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
33	confessed	confess	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
34	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	35	nmod:poss	_	_
35	sins	sin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	obj	_	_
36	before	before	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
38	holy	holy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	amod	_	_
39	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **send** | past | monarch |  |  |  | then | for the venerable Bishop | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **accompany** | past · perfect | the venerable Bishop | monarch |  | the camp |  |  | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to camp=Destination |
| 3 | **lay** | gerund | monarch *not said here* |  |  |  |  | aside monarch's regal crown | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **kneel** | past | monarch |  |  |  |  | with head | tree rules |
| 5 | **uncover** | participle | monarch *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **confess** | past | monarch *not said here* | monarch's sins |  |  | before the holy man |  | vn confess-37.10 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sin=Topic |
| 7 | **crown** |  | monarch |  |  |  |  |  | nom crown «communication transitive»: 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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