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title: Behold the true model of a warrior, who despises gain, and seeks for… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: Behold the true model of a warrior, who despises gain, and seeks for nought but glory!” Who acts: true model. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Chapter XIII., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter XIII., sentence 36

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Behold the true model of a warrior, who despises gain, and seeks for nought but glory!”

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**Who acts:** true model · **What happens:** despise, gain, seek, model · **To what, where:** warrior

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This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Chapter XIII.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (true model), 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:pg77685:34:36
# text = Behold the true model of a warrior, who despises gain, and seeks for nought but glory!”
1	Behold	behold	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	model	model	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	warrior	warrior	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	10	nsubj	_	_
10	despises	despise	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	gain	gain	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	seeks	seek	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
15	for	for	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	nought	nought	PRON	NN	PronType=Neg	14	obl	_	_
17	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	glory	glory	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **despise** | present | the true model of a warrior |  |  |  |  | who *nsubj* | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **gain** | present | the true model of a warrior *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 3 | **seek** | present | the true model of a warrior *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for nought  glory | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent for nought=Theme |
| 4 | **model** |  |  | a warrior |  |  |  |  | nom model «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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