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title: For a time Don Roderick lived happily with his young and beautiful q… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: For a time Don Roderick lived happily with his young and beautiful queen, and Toledo was the seat of festivity and splendour. Who acts: Don, Toledo. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Of Count Julian., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Of Count Julian., sentence 1

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For a time Don Roderick lived happily with his young and beautiful queen, and Toledo was the seat of festivity and splendour.

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**Who acts:** Don, Toledo · **What happens:** live, be · **To what, where:** seat

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This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Of Count Julian.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Don, Toledo), 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:pg77685:5:1
# text = For a time Don Roderick lived happily with his young and beautiful queen, and Toledo was the seat of festivity and splendour.
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
4	Don	Don	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
5	Roderick	Roderick	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	flat	_	_
6	lived	live	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	happily	happily	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
10	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	conj	_	_
13	queen	queen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
16	Toledo	Toledo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
17	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	seat	seat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	festivity	festivity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	splendour	splendour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **live** | past | Don |  |  |  | time | with Don's young queen; happily *property* | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with queen=Location |
| 2 | **is a** | past | Toledo | the seat |  |  |  | of festivity and splendour | 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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