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title: “Noble cavalier,” exclaimed they, “has grief disordered thy senses? — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: “Noble cavalier,” exclaimed they, “has grief disordered thy senses? Who acts: Noble cavalier, grief. 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 23

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“Noble cavalier,” exclaimed they, “has grief disordered thy senses?

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**Who acts:** Noble cavalier, grief · **What happens:** exclaim, have, disorder · **To what, where:** Pelistes, grief, senses · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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: who acts (Noble cavalier, grief), 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:pg77685:26:23
# text = “Noble cavalier,” exclaimed they, “has grief disordered thy senses?
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Noble	noble	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	cavalier	cavalier	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
6	exclaimed	exclaim	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
11	grief	grief	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
12	disordered	disorder	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	acl	_	_
13	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	senses	sens	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **exclaim** *speech: express* | past | Noble cavalier | Pelistes *= peliste* |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent they=Topic |
| 2 | **have** *in a quote* | present | Noble cavalier *not said here* | grief |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grief=Patient |
| 3 | **disorder** *in a quote* | participle | grief *not said here* | thy senses |  |  |  |  | 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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