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title: The hot blood of this veteran Ishmaelite was in a ferment when he he… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: The hot blood of this veteran Ishmaelite was in a ferment when he heard of a new country to invade, and vast regions to subdue; and he dreaded lest the cautious hesitation of Muza would permit the glorious prize to escape them. Who acts: hot blood, delight, vast regions, cautious hesitation. A sente
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter IX., sentence 25

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The hot blood of this veteran Ishmaelite was in a ferment when he heard of a new country to invade, and vast regions to subdue; and he dreaded lest the cautious hesitation of Muza would permit the glorious prize to escape them.

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**Who acts:** hot blood, delight, vast regions, cautious hesitation, Muza · **What happens:** be, hear, invade, subdue, dread, permit · **To what, where:** ferment, glorious prize, regions

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This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Chapter IX.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hot blood, delight, vast regions, cautious hesitation), 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:pg77685:10:25
# text = The hot blood of this veteran Ishmaelite was in a ferment when he heard of a new country to invade, and vast regions to subdue; and he dreaded lest the cautious hesitation of Muza would permit the glorious prize to escape them.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	hot	hot	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	6	det	_	_
6	veteran	veteran	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	Ishmaelite	Ishmaelite	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	_
8	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	ferment	ferment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
12	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	14	advmod	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	acl:relcl	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	invade	invade	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
23	vast	vast	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	regions	region	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nsubj	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
26	subdue	subdue	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
29	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
30	dreaded	dread	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	parataxis	_	_
31	lest	lest	SCONJ	IN	_	38	mark	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
33	cautious	cautious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	34	amod	_	_
34	hesitation	hesitation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	nsubj	_	_
35	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	Muza	Muza	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	34	nmod	_	_
37	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	38	aux	_	_
38	permit	permit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	ccomp	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
40	glorious	glorious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	amod	_	_
41	prize	prize	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obj	_	_
42	to	to	PART	TO	_	43	mark	_	_
43	escape	escape	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	38	advcl	_	_
44	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	43	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the hot blood of this veteran |  |  | a ferment |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **hear** | past | delight |  |  |  |  | of a new country | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of country=Stimulus |
| 3 | **invade** | to-infinitive | delight *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **subdue** | to-infinitive | vast regions |  |  |  |  |  | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **dread** | past | delight |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 6 | **permit** | would | the cautious hesitation of Muza | the glorious prize |  |  |  |  | vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent prize=Theme |
| 7 | **escape** | to-infinitive | the cautious hesitation of Muza *not said here* | regions *= region* |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme they=Initial\_Location |
| 8 | **hesitate** |  | Muza |  |  |  |  |  | nom hesitation «cognition 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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