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title: The nuptials of Roderick and the beautiful convert took place shortl… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: The nuptials of Roderick and the beautiful convert took place shortly afterwards, and were celebrated with great magnificence. Who acts: nuptials. 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 43

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The nuptials of Roderick and the beautiful convert took place shortly afterwards, and were celebrated with great magnificence.

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**Who acts:** nuptials · **What happens:** take, celebrate · **To what, where:** place

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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 (nuptials), 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:pg77685:4:43
# text = The nuptials of Roderick and the beautiful convert took place shortly afterwards, and were celebrated with great magnificence.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	nuptials	nuptial	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Roderick	Roderick	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	convert	convert	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
9	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
11	shortly	shortly	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
12	afterwards	afterwards	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux:pass	_	_
16	celebrated	celebrate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	parataxis	_	_
17	with	with	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	magnificence	magnificence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | past | the nuptials of Roderick and the beautiful convert | place |  |  |  | afterwards, shortly *property* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Theme |
| 2 | **celebrate** | past · passive |  |  |  |  |  | with great magnificence | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP» |

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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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