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title: The loyalty and prowess of the good knight Pelistes had gained him t… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: The loyalty and prowess of the good knight Pelistes had gained him the reverence even of his enemies. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Meeting Between the Patriot Pelistes and the Traitor Julian., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Meeting Between the Patriot Pelistes and the Traitor Julian., sentence 1

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The loyalty and prowess of the good knight Pelistes had gained him the reverence even of his enemies.

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**What happens:** gain · **To what, where:** loyalty

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This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Meeting Between the Patriot Pelistes and the Traitor Julian.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg77685:26:1
# text = The loyalty and prowess of the good knight Pelistes had gained him the reverence even of his enemies.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	loyalty	loyalty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	prowess	prowess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	knight	knight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
9	Pelistes	Pelistes	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	_
10	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	gained	gain	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
12	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	obj	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	reverence	reverence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
15	even	even	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	enemies	enemy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **gain** | past · perfect · passive |  | the loyalty of the good knight and prowess |  |  |  | of Pelistes's enemies; Pelistes *obj*; the reverence *obj* | 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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