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title: When Don Roderick heard that legions of turbaned troops had poured i… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: When Don Roderick heard that legions of turbaned troops had poured into the land from Africa, he called to mind the visions and predictions of the necromantic tower, and great fear came upon him. Who acts: Don, great fear. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Chapte
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter XI., sentence 2

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When Don Roderick heard that legions of turbaned troops had poured into the land from Africa, he called to mind the visions and predictions of the necromantic tower, and great fear came upon him.

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**Who acts:** Don, great fear · **What happens:** hear, pour, call, mind, come, predict · **To what, where:** legions, land, visions, necromantic tower · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Don, great fear), 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:pg77685:12:2
# text = When Don Roderick heard that legions of turbaned troops had poured into the land from Africa, he called to mind the visions and predictions of the necromantic tower, and great fear came upon him.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
2	Don	Don	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	Roderick	Roderick	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	flat	_	_
4	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	advcl	_	_
5	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
6	legions	legion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj:pass	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	turbaned	turbaned	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	troops	troops	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	6	nmod	_	_
10	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
11	poured	pour	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	ccomp	_	_
12	into	into	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
15	from	from	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	Africa	Africa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
18	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	called	call	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	mind	mind	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	xcomp	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	visions	vision	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obj	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	predictions	prediction	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	conj	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	necromantic	necromantic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	tower	tower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
32	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	fear	fear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nsubj	_	_
34	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	conj	_	_
35	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hear** | past | Don |  |  |  |  |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus |
| 2 | **pour** | past · perfect · passive |  | legions of turbaned troops |  | the land |  | from Africa | vn pour-9.5 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: subject=Theme into land=Destination from africa=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **call** | past | DON |  |  |  |  |  | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **mind** | to-infinitive | DON *not said here* | the visions and predictions of the necromantic tower |  |  |  |  | vn caring-75.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent vision=Theme |
| 5 | **come** | past | great fear |  |  |  |  | upon DON | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon he=Location |
| 6 | **predict** |  |  | the necromantic tower |  |  |  |  | nom prediction «cognition transitive»: of=patient |

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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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