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title: The princess and her damsels, clad in white, walked on foot to the c… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: The princess and her damsels, clad in white, walked on foot to the cathedral, while numerous beautiful children, arrayed as angels, strewed the path with flowers; and the archbishop, meeting them at the portal, received them, as it were, into the bosom of the church. Who acts: princess, Archbishop. 
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Of the Loves of Roderick and the Princess Elyata., sentence 41

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The princess and her damsels, clad in white, walked on foot to the cathedral, while numerous beautiful children, arrayed as angels, strewed the path with flowers; and the archbishop, meeting them at the portal, received them, as it were, into the bosom of the church.

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**Who acts:** princess, Archbishop · **What happens:** clad, walk, array, strew, meet, receive · **To what, where:** princess, white, numerous beautiful children, foot, path, portal

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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, Archbishop), 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:pg77685:4:41
# text = The princess and her damsels, clad in white, walked on foot to the cathedral, while numerous beautiful children, arrayed as angels, strewed the path with flowers; and the archbishop, meeting them at the portal, received them, as it were, into the bosom of the church.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
4	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	damsels	damsel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	clad	clad	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	walked	walk	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	on	on	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	foot	foot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	cathedral	cathedral	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
19	numerous	numerous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
20	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
23	arrayed	array	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	acl	_	_
24	as	as	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	angels	angel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
27	strewed	strew	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	path	path	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
30	with	with	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	flowers	flower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	archbishop	archbishop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
37	meeting	meet	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	_
38	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	obj	_	_
39	at	at	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	portal	portal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
43	received	receive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	parataxis	_	_
44	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	43	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	52	punct	_	_
46	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	52	mark	_	_
47	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	52	nsubj	_	_
48	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	52	cop	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	52	punct	_	_
50	into	into	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
51	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	52	det	_	_
52	bosom	bosom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	obl	_	_
53	of	of	ADP	IN	_	55	case	_	_
54	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	55	det	_	_
55	church	church	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	52	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **clad** | participle |  | the princess and ceremony's damsels *not said here* |  | white |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **walk** | past | the princess and ceremony's damsels | numerous beautiful children |  | foot |  | to the cathedral *result*; the archbishop *obl* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme to cathedral=Result |
| 3 | **array** | participle |  | numerous beautiful children *not said here* |  |  |  | as angels | tree rules |
| 4 | **strew** | past | the princess and ceremony's damsels *not said here* | the path |  |  |  | with flowers | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent path=Destination with flower=Theme |
| 5 | **meet** | gerund | the princess and ceremony's damsels *not said here* | princess |  | the portal |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Co-Agent |
| 6 | **receive** | past |  | princess |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
| 7 | **is** | past | Archbishop |  |  | the bosom |  | of the church | tree rules |

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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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