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title: Among them shone conspicuous a youthful beauty, magnificently attire… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: Among them shone conspicuous a youthful beauty, magnificently attired, to whom all seemed to pay reverence. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Of the Loves of Roderick and the Princess Elyata., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Of the Loves of Roderick and the Princess Elyata., sentence 14

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Among them shone conspicuous a youthful beauty, magnificently attired, to whom all seemed to pay reverence.

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**What happens:** shine, attire, seem, pay · **To what, where:** youthful beauty, reverence

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This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Of the Loves of Roderick and the Princess Elyata.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg77685:4:14
# text = Among them shone conspicuous a youthful beauty, magnificently attired, to whom all seemed to pay reverence.
1	Among	among	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obl	_	_
3	shone	shine	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	conspicuous	conspicuous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	xcomp	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	youthful	youthful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	beauty	beauty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	magnificently	magnificently	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	attired	attire	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	10	obl	_	_
14	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	15	advmod	_	_
15	seemed	seem	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	acl:relcl	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	pay	pay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	xcomp	_	_
18	reverence	reverence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **shine** | past |  | a youthful beauty |  |  |  | among jewels *= jewel*; conspicuous *property* | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent beauty=Theme |
| 2 | **attire** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | whom *obl*; magnificently *property* | vn dress-41.1.1-1-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **seem** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute |
| 4 | **pay** | to-infinitive |  | reverence |  |  |  |  | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reverence=Asset |

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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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