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title: The alarm of the infidel invasion had spread throughout the land, an… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: The alarm of the infidel invasion had spread throughout the land, and roused the Gothic valour of the inhabitants. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Terror of the Country.—roderick Rouses Himself to Arms., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clau
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Terror of the Country.—roderick Rouses Himself to Arms., sentence 25

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The alarm of the infidel invasion had spread throughout the land, and roused the Gothic valour of the inhabitants.

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**What happens:** spread, rouse, alarm · **To what, where:** alarm, land, Gothic valour, infidel invasion

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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: 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:pg77685:14:25
# text = The alarm of the infidel invasion had spread throughout the land, and roused the Gothic valour of the inhabitants.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	alarm	alarm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	infidel	infidel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	invasion	invasion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
7	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	spread	spread	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
9	throughout	throughout	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	roused	rouse	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	Gothic	gothic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	valour	valour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	inhabitants	inhabitant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **spread** | past · perfect · passive |  | the alarm of the infidel invasion |  | the land |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme throughout land=Destination |
| 2 | **rouse** | past |  | the Gothic valour of the inhabitants |  |  |  |  | vn stimulate-59.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent valour=Patient |
| 3 | **alarm** |  |  | the infidel invasion |  |  |  |  | nom alarm «feeling 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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