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title: In this delicious abode, more befitting an oriental voluptuary than… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: In this delicious abode, more befitting an oriental voluptuary than a Gothic king, Don Roderick was accustomed to while away much of that time which should have been devoted to the toilsome cares of government. Who acts: government. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irvi
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, The Story of Florinda., sentence 7

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In this delicious abode, more befitting an oriental voluptuary than a Gothic king, Don Roderick was accustomed to while away much of that time which should have been devoted to the toilsome cares of government.

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**Who acts:** government · **What happens:** befit, accustom, while away, devote, care · **To what, where:** oriental voluptuary, Don, delicious abode, much, time, toilsome cares

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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 (government), 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:pg77685:6:7
# text = In this delicious abode, more befitting an oriental voluptuary than a Gothic king, Don Roderick was accustomed to while away much of that time which should have been devoted to the toilsome cares of government.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	det	_	_
3	delicious	delicious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	abode	abode	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	7	advmod	_	_
7	befitting	befit	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	conj	_	_
8	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	oriental	oriental	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	voluptuary	voluptuary	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
11	than	than	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	Gothic	gothic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
16	Don	Don	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
17	Roderick	Roderick	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	flat	_	_
18	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux:pass	_	_
19	accustomed	accustom	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	while	while	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	xcomp	_	_
22	away	away	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
23	much	much	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	obj	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	26	det	_	_
26	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	_
27	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	31	nsubj:pass	_	_
28	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
29	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	31	aux	_	_
30	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	31	aux:pass	_	_
31	devoted	devote	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	26	acl:relcl	_	_
32	to	to	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
34	toilsome	toilsome	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	cares	care	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	obl	_	_
36	of	of	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	government	government	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **befit** | gerund |  | a oriental voluptuary |  |  |  | than a Gothic king | tree rules |
| 2 | **accustom** | past · passive |  | Don |  | this delicious abode |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **while away** | to-infinitive |  | much of that time |  |  |  | away *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **devote** | should · perfect · passive |  | that time |  |  |  | to the toilsome cares of government *goal* | vn dedicate-79 «NP V NP S\_ING»: subject=Theme to care=Goal |
| 5 | **care** |  | government |  |  |  |  |  | nom care «act intransitive»: of=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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