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title: Roderick forthwith employed the Archbishop of Toledo to instruct the… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: Roderick forthwith employed the Archbishop of Toledo to instruct the beautiful Elyata in the mysteries of the Christian faith. Who acts: Roderick. 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 th
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Of the Loves of Roderick and the Princess Elyata., sentence 38

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Roderick forthwith employed the Archbishop of Toledo to instruct the beautiful Elyata in the mysteries of the Christian faith.

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**Who acts:** Roderick · **What happens:** employ, instruct · **To what, where:** Archbishop, beautiful Elyata, mysteries

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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 (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:pg77685:4:38
# text = Roderick forthwith employed the Archbishop of Toledo to instruct the beautiful Elyata in the mysteries of the Christian faith.
1	Roderick	Roderick	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	forthwith	forthwith	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	employed	employ	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	Archbishop	Archbishop	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Toledo	Toledo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	instruct	instruct	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	Elyata	Elyata	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	mysteries	mystery	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	Christian	Christian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	faith	faith	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **employ** | past | Roderick | the Archbishop of Toledo |  |  |  | forthwith *property* | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent archbishop=Theme |
| 2 | **instruct** *speech: other* | to-infinitive | Roderick *not said here* |  | the beautiful Elyata | the mysteries of the Christian faith |  |  | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent elyata=Recipient |

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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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