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title: He had a sagacity that penetrated the thoughts of men, and a magnifi… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: He had a sagacity that penetrated the thoughts of men, and a magnificent spirit that won all hearts. Who acts: appearance, sagacity, magnificent spirit. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, The Rise of Don Roderick.—his Government., with its dependency tree and the 
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, The Rise of Don Roderick.—his Government., sentence 15

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He had a sagacity that penetrated the thoughts of men, and a magnificent spirit that won all hearts.

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**Who acts:** appearance, sagacity, magnificent spirit · **What happens:** have, penetrate, win, think · **To what, where:** sagacity, thoughts, hearts, men

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This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, The Rise of Don Roderick.—his Government.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (appearance, sagacity, magnificent spirit), 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:pg77685:3:15
# text = He had a sagacity that penetrated the thoughts of men, and a magnificent spirit that won all hearts.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	sagacity	sagacity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	_
6	penetrated	penetrate	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	thoughts	thought	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	magnificent	magnificent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	spirit	spirit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
16	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	17	nsubj	_	_
17	won	win	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	acl:relcl	_	_
18	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	19	det	_	_
19	hearts	heart	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | appearance | a sagacity |  |  |  | a magnificent spirit *conj* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sagacity=Patient |
| 2 | **penetrate** | past | a sagacity | the thoughts of men |  |  |  |  | vn poke-19 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thought=Patient |
| 3 | **win** | past | a magnificent spirit | all hearts |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heart=Eventuality |
| 4 | **think** |  |  | men |  |  |  |  | nom thought «cognition transitive»: 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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