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title: Concealing from King Roderick his knowledge of the outrage upon his… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: Concealing from King Roderick his knowledge of the outrage upon his house, he professed nothing but the most devoted loyalty and affection. Who acts: treason. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Chapter VIII., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cl
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter VIII., sentence 34

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Concealing from King Roderick his knowledge of the outrage upon his house, he professed nothing but the most devoted loyalty and affection.

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**Who acts:** treason · **What happens:** conceal, profess · **To what, where:** knowledge, nothing

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This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Chapter VIII.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (treason), 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:pg77685:9:34
# text = Concealing from King Roderick his knowledge of the outrage upon his house, he professed nothing but the most devoted loyalty and affection.
1	Concealing	conceal	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	advcl	_	_
2	from	from	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
4	Roderick	Roderick	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	flat	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	knowledge	knowledge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	outrage	outrage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
10	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
15	professed	profess	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
16	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	15	obj	_	_
17	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
19	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	20	advmod	_	_
20	devoted	devoted	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	loyalty	loyalty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	affection	affection	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **conceal** | gerund | treason *not said here* | treason's knowledge of the outrage |  |  |  | from King; upon treason's house | vn concealment-16 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent knowledge=Patient from king=Beneficiary |
| 2 | **profess** | past | treason | nothing  the devoted loyalty  affection |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent nothing=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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