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title: He was of a generous and benignant disposition, but he was open and… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: He was of a generous and benignant disposition, but he was open and confiding, and easily led away by the opinions of those he loved. Who acts: Abdalasis. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Conduct of Abdalasis As Emir of Spain., with its dependency tree and the p
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Conduct of Abdalasis As Emir of Spain., sentence 2

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He was of a generous and benignant disposition, but he was open and confiding, and easily led away by the opinions of those he loved.

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**Who acts:** Abdalasis · **What happens:** be, confide, lead away, love, opine · **To what, where:** generous disposition, those

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This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Conduct of Abdalasis As Emir of Spain.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Abdalasis), 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:pg77685:36:2
# text = He was of a generous and benignant disposition, but he was open and confiding, and easily led away by the opinions of those he loved.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
5	generous	generous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	benignant	benignant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	conj	_	_
8	disposition	disposition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	but	but	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	cop	_	_
13	open	open	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	parataxis	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	confiding	confide	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	easily	easily	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
19	led	lead	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	acl	_	_
20	away	away	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
21	by	by	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	opinions	opinion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	those	that	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	23	nmod	_	_
26	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
27	loved	love	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Abdalasis |  |  |  |  | of a generous disposition | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | past | Abdalasis |  |  |  |  | open *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **confide** *speech: other* | gerund | Abdalasis *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **lead away** | participle |  | a generous disposition *not said here* |  |  |  | by the opinions of those; away, easily *property* | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent by opinion=Destination |
| 5 | **love** | past | Abdalasis |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Experiencer |
| 6 | **opine** |  |  | those |  |  |  |  | nom opinion «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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