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title: To gratify his queen, Don Roderick had built for her rural recreatio… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: To gratify his queen, Don Roderick had built for her rural recreation a palace without the walls of Toledo, on the banks of the Tagus. Who acts: Don. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, The Story of Florinda., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cl
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, The Story of Florinda., sentence 3

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To gratify his queen, Don Roderick had built for her rural recreation a palace without the walls of Toledo, on the banks of the Tagus.

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**Who acts:** Don · **What happens:** gratify, build, recreate · **To what, where:** queen, Don

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This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, The Story of Florinda.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Don), 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:pg77685:6:3
# text = To gratify his queen, Don Roderick had built for her rural recreation a palace without the walls of Toledo, on the banks of the Tagus.
1	To	to	PART	TO	_	2	mark	_	_
2	gratify	gratify	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	advcl	_	_
3	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	queen	queen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
6	Don	Don	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
7	Roderick	Roderick	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	flat	_	_
8	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	built	build	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
10	for	for	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
12	rural	rural	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	recreation	recreation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
16	without	without	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	walls	wall	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	Toledo	Toledo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	on	on	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	banks	bank	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	conj	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	Tagus	Tagus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **gratify** | to-infinitive |  | person's queen |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus queen=Experiencer |
| 2 | **build** | past · perfect · passive |  | Don |  |  |  | for Don's rural recreation; without the walls of Toledo; a palace *obj*; the banks of the Tagus *conj* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP NP PP.asset»: subject=Beneficiary palace=Product for recreation=Asset |
| 3 | **recreate** |  | Don |  |  |  |  |  | nom recreation «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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