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title: Roderick heard all these tidings with an undaunted aspect; nor did h… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: Roderick heard all these tidings with an undaunted aspect; nor did he ever again betray sign of consternation: but the anxiety of his soul was evident in his warlike preparations. Who acts: Roderick, anxiety. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Terror of the Countr
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Terror of the Country.—roderick Rouses Himself to Arms., sentence 18

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Roderick heard all these tidings with an undaunted aspect; nor did he ever again betray sign of consternation: but the anxiety of his soul was evident in his warlike preparations.

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**Who acts:** Roderick, anxiety · **What happens:** hear, do, betray, be, sign, prepare · **To what, where:** tidings, sign, warlike preparations, consternation

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This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Terror of the Country.—roderick Rouses Himself to Arms.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Roderick, anxiety), 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:pg77685:14:18
# text = Roderick heard all these tidings with an undaunted aspect; nor did he ever again betray sign of consternation: but the anxiety of his soul was evident in his warlike preparations.
1	Roderick	Roderick	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	5	det:predet	_	_
4	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	5	det	_	_
5	tidings	tiding	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	undaunted	undaunted	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	aspect	aspect	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	12	cc	_	_
12	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
14	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	15	advmod	_	_
15	again	again	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	betray	betray	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	ccomp	_	_
17	sign	sign	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	consternation	consternation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	28	punct	_	_
21	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	anxiety	anxiety	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	soul	soul	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	_
27	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	cop	_	_
28	evident	evident	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	parataxis	_	_
29	in	in	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
30	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
31	warlike	warlike	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	preparations	preparation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hear** | past | Roderick | all tidings |  |  |  | with a undaunted aspect | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer tiding=Stimulus |
| 2 | **do** | past | Roderick *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **betray** | present | Roderick | sign of consternation |  |  | again; ever |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** | past | the anxiety of Roderick's soul |  |  | Roderick's warlike preparations |  | evident *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **sign** |  |  | consternation |  |  |  |  | nom sign «communication transitive»: of=patient |
| 6 | **prepare** |  | Roderick |  |  |  |  |  | nom preparation «act transitive»: 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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