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title: Here the princess passed her time, with the female attendants who ha… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: Here the princess passed her time, with the female attendants who had accompanied her from Algiers; and no one but the king was permitted to visit her, who daily became more and more enamoured of his lovely captive, and sought, by tender assiduity, to gain her affections. Who acts: princess. A sente
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Of the Loves of Roderick and the Princess Elyata., sentence 32

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Here the princess passed her time, with the female attendants who had accompanied her from Algiers; and no one but the king was permitted to visit her, who daily became more and more enamoured of his lovely captive, and sought, by tender assiduity, to gain her affections.

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**Who acts:** princess · **What happens:** pass, accompany, permit, visit, become, enamour · **To what, where:** female attendants, Algiers, one, Elyata, affections

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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 (princess), 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:pg77685:4:32
# text = Here the princess passed her time, with the female attendants who had accompanied her from Algiers; and no one but the king was permitted to visit her, who daily became more and more enamoured of his lovely captive, and sought, by tender assiduity, to gain her affections.
1	Here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	passed	pass	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
8	with	with	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	female	female	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	attendants	attendant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj:pass	_	_
12	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	14	nsubj	_	_
13	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	accompanied	accompany	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
15	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	obj	_	_
16	from	from	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	Algiers	Algiers	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
20	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	21	det	_	_
21	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj:pass	_	_
22	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	_
25	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux:pass	_	_
26	permitted	permit	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	parataxis	_	_
27	to	to	PART	TO	_	28	mark	_	_
28	visit	visit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	xcomp	_	_
29	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
31	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	33	nsubj	_	_
32	daily	daily	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
33	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
34	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	37	advmod	_	_
35	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
36	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	37	advmod	_	_
37	enamoured	enamour	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	33	xcomp	_	_
38	of	of	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
39	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	41	nmod:poss	_	_
40	lovely	lovely	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	amod	_	_
41	captive	captive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
43	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
44	sought	seek	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	33	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	48	punct	_	_
46	by	by	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
47	tender	tender	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	48	amod	_	_
48	assiduity	assiduity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	51	punct	_	_
50	to	to	PART	TO	_	51	mark	_	_
51	gain	gain	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	44	parataxis	_	_
52	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	53	nmod:poss	_	_
53	affections	affection	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	51	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pass** | past | the princess |  |  | here | time |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **accompany** | past · perfect · passive |  | the female attendants |  | Algiers |  | who *nsubj*; Elyata *obj* | tree rules |
| 3 | **permit** | past · passive |  | no one but the king |  |  |  |  | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: subject=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality |
| 4 | **visit** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive |  | Elyata |  |  |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Co-Agent |
| 5 | **become** | past |  |  |  |  |  | who *nsubj*; daily *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **enamour** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | of Toledo's lovely captive | tree rules |
| 7 | **seek** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | by tender assiduity | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent by assiduity=Location |
| 8 | **gain** | to-infinitive |  | Elyata's affections |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent affection=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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