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title: “She is a royal captive,” said he; “it belongs to my sovereign alone… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: “She is a royal captive,” said he; “it belongs to my sovereign alone to dispose of her.” Who acts: tempest, Alcayde, captive. 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
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Of the Loves of Roderick and the Princess Elyata., sentence 22

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“She is a royal captive,” said he; “it belongs to my sovereign alone to dispose of her.”

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**Who acts:** tempest, Alcayde, captive · **What happens:** be, say, belong, dispose · **To what, where:** royal captive · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (tempest, Alcayde, captive), 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:pg77685:4:22
# text = “She is a royal captive,” said he; “it belongs to my sovereign alone to dispose of her.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	She	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	royal	royal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	captive	captive	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
9	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
12	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	belongs	belong	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
15	to	to	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	sovereign	sovereign	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
18	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	dispose	dispose	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	advcl	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | tempest | a royal captive |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Alcayde |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **belong** *in a quote* | present | captive |  |  |  |  | to my sovereign; alone *property* | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **dispose** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | captive *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of tempest | vn addict-96 «NP V NP PP.Theme»: agent=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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