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title: The king loaded him with favours; seeking to appease his own conscie… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: The king loaded him with favours; seeking to appease his own conscience by heaping honours upon the father in atonement of the deadly wrong inflicted upon his child. Who acts: king. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Chapter VIII., with its dependency tree and the
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter VIII., sentence 35

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The king loaded him with favours; seeking to appease his own conscience by heaping honours upon the father in atonement of the deadly wrong inflicted upon his child.

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**Who acts:** king · **What happens:** load, seek, appease, heap, inflict · **To what, where:** treason, own conscience, honours, atonement

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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 (king), 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:pg77685:9:35
# text = The king loaded him with favours; seeking to appease his own conscience by heaping honours upon the father in atonement of the deadly wrong inflicted upon his child.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	loaded	load	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	favours	favour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	_
8	seeking	seek	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	appease	appease	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	xcomp	_	_
11	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
12	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	conscience	conscience	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
14	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
15	heaping	heap	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	_
16	honours	honour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	_
17	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	atonement	atonement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
22	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	deadly	deadly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	wrong	wrong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	appos	_	_
26	inflicted	inflict	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	25	csubj	_	_
27	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **load** | past | the king |  | treason |  |  | with favours | vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent he=Destination with favour=Theme |
| 2 | **seek** | gerund | the king *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **appease** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the king *not said here* | treason's own conscience |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus conscience=Experiencer |
| 4 | **heap** | gerund | the king *not said here* | honours |  | atonement |  | upon the father | vn spray-9.7-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent honour=Theme upon father=Destination |
| 5 | **inflict** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | upon treason's child | 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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