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title: So the eyes of Witiza were put out, and he was thrown into the same… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: So the eyes of Witiza were put out, and he was thrown into the same dungeon at Cordova in which Theodofredo had languished. Who acts: Theodofredo. 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 pragma
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, The Rise of Don Roderick.—his Government., sentence 22

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So the eyes of Witiza were put out, and he was thrown into the same dungeon at Cordova in which Theodofredo had languished.

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**Who acts:** Theodofredo · **What happens:** put out, throw, languish · **To what, where:** eyes, Roderick, same dungeon

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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 (Theodofredo), 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:pg77685:3:22
# text = So the eyes of Witiza were put out, and he was thrown into the same dungeon at Cordova in which Theodofredo had languished.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Witiza	Witiza	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	put	put	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
8	out	out	ADP	RP	_	7	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
11	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
12	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux:pass	_	_
13	thrown	throw	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	conj	_	_
14	into	into	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	dungeon	dungeon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
18	at	at	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	Cordova	Cordova	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	24	obl	_	_
22	Theodofredo	Theodofredo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
23	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	languished	languish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	13	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **put out** | past · passive |  | the eyes of Witiza |  |  |  |  | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: subject=Goal |
| 2 | **throw** | past · passive |  | Roderick |  |  |  | into the same dungeon *result*; at Cordova | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: subject=Theme into dungeon=Result |
| 3 | **languish** | past · perfect | Theodofredo |  |  |  |  | which *obl* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in which=Location |

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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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