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title: The heart of Don Roderick was not so depraved by sensuality, but tha… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: The heart of Don Roderick was not so depraved by sensuality, but that the wrong he had been guilty of toward the innocent Florinda, and the disgrace he had inflicted on her house, weighed heavy on his spirits, and a cloud began to gather on his once clear and unwrinkled brow. Who acts: sensuality, w
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Don Roderick Receives an Extraordinary Embassy., sentence 1

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The heart of Don Roderick was not so depraved by sensuality, but that the wrong he had been guilty of toward the innocent Florinda, and the disgrace he had inflicted on her house, weighed heavy on his spirits, and a cloud began to gather on his once clear and unwrinkled brow.

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**Who acts:** sensuality, wrong, disgrace, cloud · **What happens:** not deprave, be, inflict, weigh, begin, gather · **To what, where:** heart, disgrace, house, clear brow

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This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Don Roderick Receives an Extraordinary Embassy.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sensuality, wrong, disgrace, cloud), 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:pg77685:7:1
# text = The heart of Don Roderick was not so depraved by sensuality, but that the wrong he had been guilty of toward the innocent Florinda, and the disgrace he had inflicted on her house, weighed heavy on his spirits, and a cloud began to gather on his once clear and unwrinkled brow.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Don	Don	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	Roderick	Roderick	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	flat	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
7	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	9	advmod	_	_
8	so	so	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	depraved	deprave	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
10	by	by	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	sensuality	sensuality	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
13	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
14	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	wrong	wrong	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
17	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
18	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
19	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	20	cop	_	_
20	guilty	guilty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	parataxis	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
22	toward	toward	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	innocent	innocent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	Florinda	Florinda	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	disgrace	disgrace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nsubj	_	_
30	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nsubj	_	_
31	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	aux	_	_
32	inflicted	inflict	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	29	acl:relcl	_	_
33	on	on	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	35	nmod:poss	_	_
35	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
37	weighed	weigh	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	parataxis	_	_
38	heavy	heavy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	xcomp	_	_
39	on	on	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	41	nmod:poss	_	_
41	spirits	spirit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	38	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
43	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	46	cc	_	_
44	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
45	cloud	cloud	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	nsubj	_	_
46	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	37	conj	_	_
47	to	to	PART	TO	_	48	mark	_	_
48	gather	gather	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	46	xcomp	_	_
49	on	on	ADP	IN	_	55	case	_	_
50	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	55	nmod:poss	_	_
51	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	52	advmod	_	_
52	clear	clear	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	55	amod	_	_
53	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	54	cc	_	_
54	unwrinkled	unwrinkl	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	52	conj	_	_
55	brow	brow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
56	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **deprave** | past · passive | sensuality | the heart of Don |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | past · perfect | the wrong |  |  |  |  | of the innocent Florinda; Don *nsubj*; guilty *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **inflict** | past · perfect | disgrace | the disgrace *not said here* |  | her house |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **weigh** | past | the disgrace |  |  |  |  | heavy *property* | vn register-54.1-2-1 «NP V NP.value»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **begin** | past | a cloud |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 6 | **gather** | to-infinitive | a cloud *not said here* |  |  | disgrace's clear brow |  |  | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 7 | **unwrinkl** | participle | a cloud *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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