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title: Let it suffice to say, that Don Roderick pursued his suit to the bea… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: Let it suffice to say, that Don Roderick pursued his suit to the beautiful Florinda, his passion being more and more inflamed by the resistance of the virtuous damsel. Who acts: you, imagination, Don, passion. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, The Story of Florin
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, The Story of Florinda., sentence 69

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Let it suffice to say, that Don Roderick pursued his suit to the beautiful Florinda, his passion being more and more inflamed by the resistance of the virtuous damsel.

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**Who acts:** you, imagination, Don, passion · **What happens:** let, suffice, say, pursue, be, inflame · **To what, where:** imagination, suit, beautiful Florinda, virtuous damsel · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (you, imagination, Don, passion), 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:pg77685:6:69
# text = Let it suffice to say, that Don Roderick pursued his suit to the beautiful Florinda, his passion being more and more inflamed by the resistance of the virtuous damsel.
1	Let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	suffice	suffice	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	xcomp	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
8	Don	Don	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
9	Roderick	Roderick	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	flat	_	_
10	pursued	pursue	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	ccomp	_	_
11	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	suit	suit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	Florinda	Florinda	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	passion	passion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
20	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	21	cop	_	_
21	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	16	acl:relcl	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
23	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	24	advmod	_	_
24	inflamed	inflame	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	conj	_	_
25	by	by	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	resistance	resistance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	virtuous	virtuous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	damsel	damsel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **let** | imperative | you *not said here* | imagination |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **suffice** | infinitive | imagination *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **say** *speech: assert* | to-infinitive | imagination *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **pursue** | past | Don | Florinda's suit |  | the beautiful Florinda |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent suit=Theme to florinda=Trajectory |
| 5 | **is** | gerund | Florinda's passion | the beautiful Florinda *not said here* |  |  |  | more *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **inflame** | participle | Florinda's passion *not said here* |  |  |  |  | by the resistance of the virtuous damsel | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 7 | **resist** |  |  | the virtuous damsel |  |  |  |  | nom resistance «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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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