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title: King Roderick received the timid and blushing maiden into his patern… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: King Roderick received the timid and blushing maiden into his paternal care; promising to watch over her happiness with a parent’s eye, and that she should be enrolled among the most cherished attendants of the queen. Who acts: King. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irv
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Of Count Julian., sentence 19

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King Roderick received the timid and blushing maiden into his paternal care; promising to watch over her happiness with a parent’s eye, and that she should be enrolled among the most cherished attendants of the queen.

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**Who acts:** King · **What happens:** receive, blush, promise, watch, enroll, cherish · **To what, where:** timid, happiness, Florinda

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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 (King), 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:pg77685:5:19
# text = King Roderick received the timid and blushing maiden into his paternal care; promising to watch over her happiness with a parent’s eye, and that she should be enrolled among the most cherished attendants of the queen.
1	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	Roderick	Roderick	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	received	receive	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	timid	timid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	obj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	blushing	blush	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	conj	_	_
8	maiden	maiden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	xcomp	_	_
9	into	into	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
11	paternal	paternal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	care	care	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	_
14	promising	promise	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	watch	watch	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	xcomp	_	_
17	over	over	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	happiness	happiness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
20	with	with	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	parent	parent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	’s	's	PART	POS	_	22	case	_	_
24	eye	eye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
27	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
28	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj:pass	_	_
29	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
30	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	aux:pass	_	_
31	enrolled	enroll	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
32	among	among	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
34	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	35	advmod	_	_
35	cherished	cherish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	36	amod	_	_
36	attendants	attendant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	obl	_	_
37	of	of	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	queen	queen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **receive** | past | King | the timid |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent timid=Theme |
| 2 | **blush** | gerund | King *not said here* |  |  |  |  | maiden *property* | vn hiccup-40.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **promise** *speech: promise* | gerund | King *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **watch** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | King *not said here* |  |  | Florinda's happiness with a parent's eye |  |  | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over happiness=Location |
| 5 | **enroll** | should · passive |  | Florinda |  |  |  | among the cherished attendants of the queen | vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 6 | **cherish** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
| 7 | **care** |  | king |  |  |  |  |  | nom care «act intransitive»: 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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