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title: Roderick beheld the captive monarch with an unpitying eye, rememberi… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: Roderick beheld the captive monarch with an unpitying eye, remembering only his wrongs and cruelties to his father. Who acts: Roderick. 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 pragmatics of eve
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, The Rise of Don Roderick.—his Government., sentence 20

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Roderick beheld the captive monarch with an unpitying eye, remembering only his wrongs and cruelties to his father.

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**Who acts:** Roderick · **What happens:** behold, remember · **To what, where:** captive monarch, wrongs

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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 (Roderick), 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:pg77685:3:20
# text = Roderick beheld the captive monarch with an unpitying eye, remembering only his wrongs and cruelties to his father.
1	Roderick	Roderick	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	beheld	behold	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	captive	captive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	monarch	monarch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	unpitying	unpitying	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	eye	eye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	remembering	remember	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
12	only	only	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
13	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	wrongs	wrong	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	cruelties	cruelty	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	conj	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	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 | **behold** | past | Roderick | the captive monarch |  |  |  | with a unpitying eye | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer monarch=Stimulus |
| 2 | **remember** | gerund | Roderick *not said here* | Roderick's wrongs and cruelties |  |  |  | to Roderick's father | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent wrong=Theme to father=be' |

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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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