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title: Don Roderick remained for some time lost in thought after the depart… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: Don Roderick remained for some time lost in thought after the departure of the men: he then dismissed all his court, excepting the venerable Urbino, at that time archbishop of Toledo. Who acts: Don, men. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Don Roderick Receives an 
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Don Roderick Receives an Extraordinary Embassy., sentence 17

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Don Roderick remained for some time lost in thought after the departure of the men: he then dismissed all his court, excepting the venerable Urbino, at that time archbishop of Toledo.

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**Who acts:** Don, men · **What happens:** remain, lose, dismiss, except, depart · **To what, where:** time, thought, court, venerable Urbino, time archbishop

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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 (Don, men), 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:pg77685:7:17
# text = Don Roderick remained for some time lost in thought after the departure of the men: he then dismissed all his court, excepting the venerable Urbino, at that time archbishop of Toledo.
1	Don	Don	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	Roderick	Roderick	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	remained	remain	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	6	det	_	_
6	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	lost	lose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	thought	thought	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
10	after	after	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	departure	departure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
17	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
18	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	19	advmod	_	_
19	dismissed	dismiss	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
20	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	22	det:predet	_	_
21	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	court	court	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
24	excepting	except	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	19	advcl	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	venerable	venerable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	Urbino	Urbino	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
29	at	at	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
30	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	32	det	_	_
31	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	compound	_	_
32	archbishop	archbishop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	Toledo	Toledo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **remain** | past | Don |  |  |  | time |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **lose** | participle |  | some time *not said here* |  | thought | after the departure of the men |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V PP.eventuality S\_ING»: agent=Agent in thought=Eventuality |
| 3 | **dismiss** | past | Don | Don's court |  |  | then |  | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent court=Theme |
| 4 | **except** | gerund | Don *not said here* | the venerable Urbino |  | that time archbishop of Toledo |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **depart** |  | the men |  |  |  |  |  | nom departure «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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