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title: There are divers accounts of the youthful beauty who first found fav… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: There are divers accounts of the youthful beauty who first found favour in his eyes, and was elevated by him to the throne. Who acts: divers accounts, youthful beauty, Roderick. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Of the Loves of Roderick and the Princess Elyata., 
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Of the Loves of Roderick and the Princess Elyata., sentence 2

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There are divers accounts of the youthful beauty who first found favour in his eyes, and was elevated by him to the throne.

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**Who acts:** divers accounts, youthful beauty, Roderick · **What happens:** be, find, elevate, account · **To what, where:** favour, eyes, throne, youthful beauty

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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: who acts (divers accounts, youthful beauty, Roderick), 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:pg77685:4:2
# text = There are divers accounts of the youthful beauty who first found favour in his eyes, and was elevated by him to the throne.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	are	be	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	divers	diver	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	compound	_	_
4	accounts	account	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	youthful	youthful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	beauty	beauty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
9	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	11	nsubj	_	_
10	first	first	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	11	advmod	_	_
11	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	acl:relcl	_	_
12	favour	favour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux:pass	_	_
19	elevated	elevate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	conj	_	_
20	by	by	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obl	_	_
22	to	to	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	throne	throne	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **does** | present | divers accounts of the youthful beauty |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **find** | past | the youthful beauty | favour |  | Roderick's eyes |  | first *property* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent favour=Topic |
| 3 | **elevate** | past · passive | Roderick |  |  | the throne |  |  | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to throne=Destination |
| 4 | **account** |  |  | the youthful beauty |  |  |  |  | nom account «communication 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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