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description: He was grieved at heart that such loyalty and valour should only lead to slavery or death, and resolved to make one desperate attempt for their deliverance. Who acts: such loyalty, loyalty. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Defence of the Convent of St. George By
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Defence of the Convent of St. George By Pelistes., sentence 8

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He was grieved at heart that such loyalty and valour should only lead to slavery or death, and resolved to make one desperate attempt for their deliverance.

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**Who acts:** such loyalty, loyalty · **What happens:** grieve, lead, resolve, make, deliver · **To what, where:** Pelistes, heart, one desperate attempt

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This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Defence of the Convent of St. George By Pelistes.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (such loyalty, loyalty), 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:pg77685:25:8
# text = He was grieved at heart that such loyalty and valour should only lead to slavery or death, and resolved to make one desperate attempt for their deliverance.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	grieved	grieve	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	at	at	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
6	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
7	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	loyalty	loyalty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	valour	valour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
11	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
12	only	only	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	lead	lead	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	slavery	slavery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
16	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	resolved	resolve	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	parataxis	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	advcl	_	_
23	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	25	nummod	_	_
24	desperate	desperate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	attempt	attempt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
26	for	for	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	deliverance	deliverance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **grieve** | past · passive |  | Pelistes |  | heart |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer |
| 2 | **lead** | should | such loyalty and valour |  |  |  |  | to slavery or death | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition to slavery=Patient |
| 3 | **resolve** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **make** | to-infinitive |  | one desperate attempt |  |  |  | for loyalty's deliverance | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: agent=Agent attempt=Product for deliverance=Asset |
| 5 | **deliver** |  | loyalty |  |  |  |  |  | nom deliverance «act 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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