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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Of Count Julian., sentence 10

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They had hastened, therefore, to pay their court to the newly elevated monarch, and to assure him of their fidelity to his interests.

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**Who acts:** love, Julian · **What happens:** hasten, pay, elevate, assure, interest · **To what, where:** court, Julian

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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 (love, Julian), 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:pg77685:5:10
# text = They had hastened, therefore, to pay their court to the newly elevated monarch, and to assure him of their fidelity to his interests.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	hastened	hasten	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	therefore	therefore	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	pay	pay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
9	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	court	court	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	iobj	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
13	newly	newly	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	elevated	elevate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	amod	_	_
15	monarch	monarch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	assure	assure	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
20	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	fidelity	fidelity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
24	to	to	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	interests	interest	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hasten** | past · perfect | love |  |  |  |  | therefore *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **pay** | to-infinitive | love *not said here* |  | love's court |  |  | to the elevated monarch | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent court=Asset |
| 3 | **elevate** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | newly *property* | vn put\_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **assure** | to-infinitive | love *not said here* |  | Julian |  |  | of love's fidelity; to Julian's interests | vn advise-37.9 «NP V NP PP.topic»: agent=Agent he=Recipient of fidelity=Topic |
| 5 | **interest** |  | Julian |  |  |  |  |  | nom interest «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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