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title: Such is the picture which ancient writers give of Don Roderick, when… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: Such is the picture which ancient writers give of Don Roderick, when, with all the stern and simple virtues unimpaired which he had acquired in adversity and exile, and flushed with the triumph of a pious revenge, he ascended the Gothic throne. Who acts: ancient writers, appearance, pious revenge. A
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, The Rise of Don Roderick.—his Government., sentence 16

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Such is the picture which ancient writers give of Don Roderick, when, with all the stern and simple virtues unimpaired which he had acquired in adversity and exile, and flushed with the triumph of a pious revenge, he ascended the Gothic throne.

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**Who acts:** ancient writers, appearance, pious revenge · **What happens:** be, give, unimpair, acquire, flush, ascend · **To what, where:** Such picture, simple virtues, stern, adversity, Gothic throne

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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 (ancient writers, appearance, pious revenge), 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:pg77685:3:16
# text = Such is the picture which ancient writers give of Don Roderick, when, with all the stern and simple virtues unimpaired which he had acquired in adversity and exile, and flushed with the triumph of a pious revenge, he ascended the Gothic throne.
1	Such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	picture	picture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	8	obj	_	_
6	ancient	ancient	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	writers	writer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
8	give	give	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Don	Don	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
11	Roderick	Roderick	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	8	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	with	with	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	18	det:predet	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	stern	stern	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	parataxis	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
20	simple	simple	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	virtues	virtue	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	conj	_	_
22	unimpaired	unimpair	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	acl	_	_
23	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	26	nsubj:pass	_	_
24	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
25	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	acquired	acquire	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	parataxis	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	adversity	adversity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	exile	exile	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
33	flushed	flush	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	parataxis	_	_
34	with	with	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	triumph	triumph	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	_
37	of	of	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
38	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
39	pious	pious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	_
40	revenge	revenge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
42	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	43	nsubj	_	_
43	ascended	ascend	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	conj	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	46	det	_	_
45	Gothic	gothic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	46	amod	_	_
46	throne	throne	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present |  | the Such picture |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **give** | present | ancient writers | the Such picture |  |  |  | of Don; all stern and simple virtues *parataxis* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Theme |
| 3 | **unimpair** | participle |  | simple virtues *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **acquire** | past · perfect · passive |  | all stern and simple virtues |  | adversity and exile |  | appearance *nsubj* | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 5 | **flush** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | with the triumph of a pious revenge | vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **ascend** | past | appearance | the Gothic throne |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme throne=Trajectory |
| 7 | **triumph** |  | a pious revenge |  |  |  |  |  | nom triumph «event intransitive»: of=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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