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title: Count Julian.—His Fortunes in Africa.—He hears of the Dishonour of h… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: Count Julian.—His Fortunes in Africa.—He hears of the Dishonour of his Child.—His Conduct thereupon 66 Who acts: you, Julian. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Opening, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Opening, sentence 42

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Count Julian.—His Fortunes in Africa.—He hears of the Dishonour of his Child.—His Conduct thereupon 66

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**Who acts:** you, Julian · **What happens:** count, hear, conduct · **To what, where:** Julian

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This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Opening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, Julian), 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:pg77685:1:42
# text = Count Julian.—His Fortunes in Africa.—He hears of the Dishonour of his Child.—His Conduct thereupon 66
1	Count	count	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	Julian	Julian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	Fortunes	fortune	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Africa	Africa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	hears	hear	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	Dishonour	Dishonour	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	Child	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	Conduct	conduct	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
23	thereupon	thereupon	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	66	66	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	1	obl	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **count** | imperative | you *not said here* | Julian |  |  |  | Julian's Fortunes in Africa *obl*; 66 *obl*; Julian's Conduct *obj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **hear** | present | Julian |  |  |  |  | of the Dishonour of Julian's Child | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of dishonour=Stimulus |
| 3 | **conduct** |  | Julian |  |  |  |  |  | nom conduct «act transitive»: poss=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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