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title: Roderick stayed to see no more, but rushed from the fatal hall, foll… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: Roderick stayed to see no more, but rushed from the fatal hall, followed by his terrified attendants. Who acts: Roderick. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Story of the Marvellous and Portentous Tower., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Story of the Marvellous and Portentous Tower., sentence 70

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Roderick stayed to see no more, but rushed from the fatal hall, followed by his terrified attendants.

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**Who acts:** Roderick · **What happens:** stay, see, rush, follow · **To what, where:** more, fatal hall

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This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Story of the Marvellous and Portentous Tower.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Roderick), 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:pg77685:8:70
# text = Roderick stayed to see no more, but rushed from the fatal hall, followed by his terrified attendants.
1	Roderick	Roderick	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	stayed	stay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	4	mark	_	_
4	see	see	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	_
5	no	no	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	rushed	rush	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
10	from	from	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	fatal	fatal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	hall	hall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	followed	follow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	conj	_	_
16	by	by	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
18	terrified	terrified	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	attendants	attendant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl:agent	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **stay** | past | Roderick |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **see** | to-infinitive | Roderick *not said here* | more |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer more=Stimulus |
| 3 | **rush** | past |  |  |  | the fatal hall |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from hall=Trajectory |
| 4 | **follow** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | Roderick's terrified attendants *obl:agent* | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=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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