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title: When he was recovered from his wounds they gave him a magnificent ba… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: When he was recovered from his wounds they gave him a magnificent banquet, to testify their admiration of his virtues. Who acts: wounds, Pelistes. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Meeting Between the Patriot Pelistes and the Traitor Julian., with its dependency 
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Meeting Between the Patriot Pelistes and the Traitor Julian., sentence 3

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When he was recovered from his wounds they gave him a magnificent banquet, to testify their admiration of his virtues.

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**Who acts:** wounds, Pelistes · **What happens:** recover, give, testify, wound, admire · **To what, where:** Pelistes, wounds, magnificent banquet, admiration, virtues

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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 (wounds, Pelistes), 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:pg77685:26:3
# text = When he was recovered from his wounds they gave him a magnificent banquet, to testify their admiration of his virtues.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	recovered	recover	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	wounds	wound	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
8	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
10	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	iobj	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	magnificent	magnificent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	banquet	banquet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	testify	testify	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	advcl	_	_
17	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	admiration	admiration	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	virtues	virtue	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **recover** | past · passive |  | Pelistes |  | Pelistes's wounds |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: subject=Theme from wound=Source |
| 2 | **give** | past | wounds *= wound* | a magnificent banquet | Pelistes |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient banquet=Theme |
| 3 | **testify** *speech: other* | to-infinitive | wounds *= wound* *not said here* | wounds's admiration of Pelistes's virtues |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **wound** |  | Pelistes |  |  |  |  |  | nom wound «state transitive»: poss=agent |
| 5 | **admire** |  | wounds *= wound* | Pelistes's virtues |  |  |  |  | nom admiration «feeling transitive»: poss=agent of=patient |

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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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