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title: He gave orders that Exilona should be entertained in a style befitti… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: He gave orders that Exilona should be entertained in a style befitting her former rank; he appointed a train of female attendants to wait upon her, and a guard of honour to protect her from all intrusion. Who acts: Abdalasis, style. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irvi
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Loves of Abdalasis and Exilona., sentence 18

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He gave orders that Exilona should be entertained in a style befitting her former rank; he appointed a train of female attendants to wait upon her, and a guard of honour to protect her from all intrusion.

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**Who acts:** Abdalasis, style · **What happens:** give, entertain, befit, appoint, wait, protect · **To what, where:** orders, Exilona, style, former rank, train

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This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Loves of Abdalasis and Exilona.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Abdalasis, style), 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:pg77685:37:18
# text = He gave orders that Exilona should be entertained in a style befitting her former rank; he appointed a train of female attendants to wait upon her, and a guard of honour to protect her from all intrusion.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	orders	order	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
4	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	8	obj	_	_
5	Exilona	Exilona	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
6	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
7	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	aux:pass	_	_
8	entertained	entertain	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl:relcl	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	style	style	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	befitting	befit	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	11	acl	_	_
13	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
14	former	former	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	rank	rank	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	appointed	appoint	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	train	train	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	female	female	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	attendants	attendant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nmod	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	wait	wait	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	advcl	_	_
26	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
30	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	guard	guard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	honour	honour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	_
34	to	to	PART	TO	_	35	mark	_	_
35	protect	protect	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	_
36	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	35	obj	_	_
37	from	from	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	39	det	_	_
39	intrusion	intrusion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | past | Abdalasis | orders |  |  |  | a guard of honour *obl* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent order=Theme |
| 2 | **entertain** | should · passive |  | Exilona |  | a style |  | orders *obj* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Experiencer that=Result |
| 3 | **befit** | gerund | a style *not said here* | Exilona's former rank |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **appoint** | past | Abdalasis | a train of female attendants |  |  |  |  | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent train=Theme |
| 5 | **wait** | to-infinitive | Abdalasis *not said here* |  |  |  |  | upon Exilona | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon she=Location |
| 6 | **protect** | to-infinitive | Abdalasis *not said here* |  | Exilona |  |  | from all intrusion | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent she=Beneficiary from intrusion=Theme |

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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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