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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. Who acts: INVASION. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Chapter XI., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter XI., sentence 1

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MEASURES OF DON RODERICK ON HEARING OF THE INVASION.—EXPEDITION OF ATAULPHO.—VISION OF TARIC.

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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, Chapter XI.. 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:pg77685:12:1
# text = MEASURES OF DON RODERICK ON HEARING OF THE INVASION.—EXPEDITION OF ATAULPHO.—VISION OF TARIC.
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	NOUN	NN	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	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## 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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