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title: Some of her ancient attendants interceded for her liberation, promis… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: Some of her ancient attendants interceded for her liberation, promising countless sums to be paid by her father for her ransom; but the Alcayde turned a deaf ear to all their golden offers. Who acts: Some, father, Alcayde, tempest. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irvin
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Of the Loves of Roderick and the Princess Elyata., sentence 21

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Some of her ancient attendants interceded for her liberation, promising countless sums to be paid by her father for her ransom; but the Alcayde turned a deaf ear to all their golden offers.

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**Who acts:** Some, father, Alcayde, tempest, sums · **What happens:** intercede, promise, pay, turn, liberate, ransom · **To what, where:** countless sums, deaf ear, golden offers

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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 (Some, father, Alcayde, tempest), 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:pg77685:4:21
# text = Some of her ancient attendants interceded for her liberation, promising countless sums to be paid by her father for her ransom; but the Alcayde turned a deaf ear to all their golden offers.
1	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	6	nsubj	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
4	ancient	ancient	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	attendants	attendant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	nmod	_	_
6	interceded	intercede	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	liberation	liberation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	promising	promise	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
12	countless	countless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	sums	sum	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
15	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	aux:pass	_	_
16	paid	pay	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	acl	_	_
17	by	by	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
20	for	for	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	ransom	ransom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
24	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	Alcayde	Alcayde	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	nsubj	_	_
27	turned	turn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	deaf	deaf	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	ear	ear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
31	to	to	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
32	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	35	det:predet	_	_
33	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	35	nmod:poss	_	_
34	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	offers	offer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **intercede** | past | Some of tempest's ancient attendants |  |  |  |  | for tempest's liberation | tree rules |
| 2 | **promise** *speech: promise* | gerund | Some of tempest's ancient attendants *not said here* | countless sums |  |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent sum=Theme |
| 3 | **pay** | to-infinitive · passive | tempest's father for tempest's ransom | countless sums *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **turn** | past | the Alcayde | a deaf ear |  | sums's golden offers |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent ear=Theme to offer=Trajectory |
| 5 | **liberate** |  | tempest |  |  |  |  |  | nom liberation «act transitive»: poss=agent |
| 6 | **ransom** |  | tempest |  |  |  |  |  | nom ransom «possession transitive»: poss=agent |
| 7 | **offer** |  | sums *= sum* |  |  |  |  |  | nom offer «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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