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title: Measures of Don Roderick on hearing of the Invasion.—Expedition of A… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: Measures of Don Roderick on hearing of the Invasion.—Expedition of Ataulpho.—Vision of Taric 94 Who acts: Invasion. 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 48

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Measures of Don Roderick on hearing of the Invasion.—Expedition of Ataulpho.—Vision of Taric 94

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**Who acts:** Invasion · **What happens:** measure, hear · **To what, where:** Measures, Don

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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 (Invasion), 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:pg77685:1:48
# text = Measures of Don Roderick on hearing of the Invasion.—Expedition of Ataulpho.—Vision of Taric 94
1	Measures	measure	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	Don	Don	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	nmod	_	_
4	Roderick	Roderick	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	flat	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	hearing	hearing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	Invasion	Invasion	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	Expedition	expedition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	Ataulpho	Ataulpho	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	Vision	vision	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	Taric	Taric	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
20	94	94	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	19	flat	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 2 | **measure** |  |  | Don on hearing of the Invasion |  |  |  |  | nom measure «act transitive»: of=patient |
| 3 | **hear** |  | the Invasion |  |  |  |  |  | nom hearing «act intransitive»: of=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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