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title: The venerable archbishop still continued to remonstrate, but Don Rod… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: The venerable archbishop still continued to remonstrate, but Don Roderick heeded not his counsel, for he was led on by his malignant star. Who acts: venerable archbishop, Don, malignant star. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Don Roderick Receives an Extraordinar
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Don Roderick Receives an Extraordinary Embassy., sentence 27

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The venerable archbishop still continued to remonstrate, but Don Roderick heeded not his counsel, for he was led on by his malignant star.

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**Who acts:** venerable archbishop, Don, malignant star · **What happens:** continue, remonstrate, not heed, lead on · **To what, where:** counsel, 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 (venerable archbishop, Don, malignant star), 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:pg77685:7:27
# text = The venerable archbishop still continued to remonstrate, but Don Roderick heeded not his counsel, for he was led on by his malignant star.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	venerable	venerable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	archbishop	archbishop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	still	still	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	continued	continue	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	remonstrate	remonstrate	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	Don	Don	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
11	Roderick	Roderick	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	flat	_	_
12	heeded	heed	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
13	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	12	advmod	_	_
14	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	counsel	counsel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
18	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
19	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux:pass	_	_
20	led	lead	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	conj	_	_
21	on	on	ADP	RP	_	20	compound:prt	_	_
22	by	by	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
24	malignant	malignant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	star	star	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **continue** | past | the venerable archbishop |  |  |  | still |  | vn continue-55.3 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **remonstrate** | to-infinitive | the venerable archbishop *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **not** **heed** | past | Don | Don's counsel |  |  |  |  | vn abide\_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent counsel=Theme |
| 4 | **lead on** | past · passive | Don's malignant star | archbishop |  |  |  |  | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme |

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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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