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title: Thy daughter has been dishonoured, the royal cradle of the Goths pol… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: Thy daughter has been dishonoured, the royal cradle of the Goths polluted, and our lineage insulted and disgraced. Who acts: Goths, lineage. 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 clause.
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, The Story of Florinda., sentence 77

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Thy daughter has been dishonoured, the royal cradle of the Goths polluted, and our lineage insulted and disgraced.

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**Who acts:** Goths, lineage · **What happens:** dishonour, pollute, insult, disgrace · **To what, where:** daughter

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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 (Goths, lineage), 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:pg77685:6:77
# text = Thy daughter has been dishonoured, the royal cradle of the Goths polluted, and our lineage insulted and disgraced.
1	Thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	has	have	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	dishonoured	dishonour	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	royal	royal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	cradle	cradle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
10	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	Goths	Goth	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
13	polluted	pollute	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
16	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	lineage	lineage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
18	insulted	insult	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	parataxis	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	disgraced	disgrace	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **dishonour** | present · perfect · passive |  | Thy daughter |  |  |  | the royal cradle *obj* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Experiencer cradle=Result |
| 2 | **pollute** | past | the Goths |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **insult** | participle | our lineage |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **disgrace** | participle | our lineage *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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