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title: When the herald had retired, he turned an eye of suspicion on Count… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: When the herald had retired, he turned an eye of suspicion on Count Julian. Who acts: defiance. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Traitorous Message of Count Julian., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Traitorous Message of Count Julian., sentence 3

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When the herald had retired, he turned an eye of suspicion on Count Julian.

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**Who acts:** defiance · **What happens:** retire, turn · **To what, where:** herald, eye

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This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Traitorous Message of Count Julian.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (defiance), 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:pg77685:17:3
# text = When the herald had retired, he turned an eye of suspicion on Count Julian.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	herald	herald	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	retired	retire	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	turned	turn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	eye	eye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	suspicion	suspicion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
13	on	on	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	Count	Count	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	Julian	Julian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	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 | **retire** | past · perfect · passive |  | the herald |  |  |  |  | vn resign-10.11-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Attribute |
| 2 | **turn** | past | defiance | a eye of suspicion on Count Julian |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent eye=Theme |

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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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