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title: King Roderick came forth, attended by the chivalry of his court, to… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: King Roderick came forth, attended by the chivalry of his court, to receive the royal captive. Who acts: King. 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 29

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King Roderick came forth, attended by the chivalry of his court, to receive the royal captive.

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**Who acts:** King · **What happens:** come, attend, receive · **To what, where:** royal captive

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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 (King), 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:pg77685:4:29
# text = King Roderick came forth, attended by the chivalry of his court, to receive the royal captive.
1	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	Roderick	Roderick	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	attended	attend	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	advcl	_	_
7	by	by	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	chivalry	chivalry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	court	court	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	receive	receive	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	royal	royal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	captive	captive	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	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 | **come** | past | King |  |  |  |  | forth *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **attend** | participle | King *not said here* |  |  |  |  | by the chivalry of Toledo's court | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent by chivalry=Theme |
| 3 | **receive** | to-infinitive | King *not said here* | the royal captive |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent captive=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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