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title: Tenderos was powerful of frame and superior in the use of his weapon… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: Tenderos was powerful of frame and superior in the use of his weapons, but the curse of treason seemed to paralyse his arm. Who acts: Tenderos, curse. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Battle of Calpe.—fate of Ataulpho., with its dependency tree and the pragmatic
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Battle of Calpe.—fate of Ataulpho., sentence 42

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Tenderos was powerful of frame and superior in the use of his weapons, but the curse of treason seemed to paralyse his arm.

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**Who acts:** Tenderos, curse · **What happens:** be, seem, paralyse, use, curse · **To what, where:** use, arm, weapons, treason

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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 (Tenderos, curse), 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:pg77685:13:42
# text = Tenderos was powerful of frame and superior in the use of his weapons, but the curse of treason seemed to paralyse his arm.
1	Tenderos	Tenderos	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	powerful	powerful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	frame	frame	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	superior	superior	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	use	use	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	weapons	weapon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
15	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	curse	curse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	treason	treason	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
20	seemed	seem	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	paralyse	paralyse	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	xcomp	_	_
23	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	arm	arm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Tenderos |  |  |  |  | of frame; powerful *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | Tenderos *not said here* |  |  | the use of Tenderos's weapons |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **seem** | past | the curse of treason |  |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute |
| 4 | **paralyse** | to-infinitive | the curse of treason *not said here* | Tenderos's arm |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **use** |  |  | Tenderos's weapons |  |  |  |  | nom use «act transitive»: of=patient |
| 6 | **curse** |  |  | treason |  |  |  |  | nom curse «communication 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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