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title: Their uncle Oppas, bishop of Seville, who had been made co-partner,… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: Their uncle Oppas, bishop of Seville, who had been made co-partner, by Witiza, in the arch-episcopal chair at Toledo, would have likewise fallen under the suspicion of the king; but he was a man of consummate art and vast exterior sanctity, and won upon the good graces of the monarch. Who acts: Witi
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, The Rise of Don Roderick.—his Government., sentence 28

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Their uncle Oppas, bishop of Seville, who had been made co-partner, by Witiza, in the arch-episcopal chair at Toledo, would have likewise fallen under the suspicion of the king; but he was a man of consummate art and vast exterior sanctity, and won upon the good graces of the monarch.

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**Who acts:** Witiza, uncle · **What happens:** make, fall, be, win, suspect · **To what, where:** bishop, suspicion, man, king

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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 (Witiza, uncle), 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:pg77685:3:28
# text = Their uncle Oppas, bishop of Seville, who had been made co-partner, by Witiza, in the arch-episcopal chair at Toledo, would have likewise fallen under the suspicion of the king; but he was a man of consummate art and vast exterior sanctity, and won upon the good graces of the monarch.
1	Their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	uncle	uncle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
3	Oppas	Oppas	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	bishop	bishop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Seville	Seville	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj:pass	_	_
10	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
11	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	12	aux:pass	_	_
12	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl	_	_
13	co-partner	co-partner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	by	by	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	Witiza	Witiza	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	arch-episcopal	arch-episcopal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	chair	chair	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	advcl	_	_
22	at	at	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	Toledo	Toledo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
25	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
26	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	aux	_	_
27	likewise	likewise	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	fallen	fall	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
29	under	under	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	suspicion	suspicion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	40	punct	_	_
36	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	40	cc	_	_
37	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	40	nsubj	_	_
38	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	40	cop	_	_
39	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
41	of	of	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
42	consummate	consummate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	43	amod	_	_
43	art	art	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	nmod	_	_
44	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	47	cc	_	_
45	vast	vast	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	47	amod	_	_
46	exterior	exterior	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	47	amod	_	_
47	sanctity	sanctity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	50	punct	_	_
49	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	50	cc	_	_
50	won	win	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	parataxis	_	_
51	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	54	case	_	_
52	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	54	det	_	_
53	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	54	amod	_	_
54	graces	grace	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	50	obl	_	_
55	of	of	ADP	IN	_	57	case	_	_
56	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	57	det	_	_
57	monarch	monarch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	54	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	28	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past · perfect · passive | Witiza | bishop of Seville |  |  |  | co-partner *xcomp*; the arch-episcopal chair at Toledo *advcl* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Product |
| 2 | **fall** | would · perfect | Evan's uncle |  |  | the suspicion of the king |  | likewise *property* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme under suspicion=Location |
| 3 | **is a** | past | uncle | a man and vast exterior sanctity |  |  |  | of consummate art; vast exterior sanctity *conj* | tree rules |
| 4 | **win** | past |  |  |  |  |  | upon the good graces of the monarch | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **suspect** |  |  | the king |  |  |  |  | nom suspicion «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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