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title: He dealt his blows about him with a powerful arm and with malignant… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: He dealt his blows about him with a powerful arm and with malignant fury, for nothing is more deadly than the hatred of an apostate. Who acts: Theodomir, nothing. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Battle of Calpe.—fate of Ataulpho., with its dependency tree and t
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Battle of Calpe.—fate of Ataulpho., sentence 24

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He dealt his blows about him with a powerful arm and with malignant fury, for nothing is more deadly than the hatred of an apostate.

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**Who acts:** Theodomir, nothing · **What happens:** deal, be, blow · **To what, where:** blows

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This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Battle of Calpe.—fate of Ataulpho.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Theodomir, nothing), 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:pg77685:13:24
# text = He dealt his blows about him with a powerful arm and with malignant fury, for nothing is more deadly than the hatred of an apostate.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	dealt	deal	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	4	nmod:poss	_	_
4	blows	blow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	about	about	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obl	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	powerful	powerful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	arm	arm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	malignant	malignant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	fury	fury	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
16	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	20	mark	_	_
17	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	20	nsubj	_	_
18	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
19	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	20	advmod	_	_
20	deadly	deadly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	_
21	than	than	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	hatred	hatred	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	apostate	apostate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **deal** | past | Theodomir | Theodomir's blows |  |  |  | about Taric; with a powerful arm and malignant fury | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent blow=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | present | nothing |  |  |  |  | than the hatred of a apostate; deadly *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **blow** |  | Theodomir |  |  |  |  |  | nom blow «act intransitive»: 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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