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title: Don Julian retired to his tent in great trouble of mind, and fear ca… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: Don Julian retired to his tent in great trouble of mind, and fear came upon him that the Bishop Oppas might play him false; for it is the lot of traitors ever to distrust each other. Who acts: Don, fear, Bishop Oppas, Oppas. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Trai
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Traitorous Message of Count Julian., sentence 7

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Don Julian retired to his tent in great trouble of mind, and fear came upon him that the Bishop Oppas might play him false; for it is the lot of traitors ever to distrust each other.

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**Who acts:** Don, fear, Bishop Oppas, Oppas · **What happens:** retire, come, play, be, distrust, trouble · **To what, where:** great trouble, Don, each, mind

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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 (Don, fear, Bishop Oppas, Oppas), 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:pg77685:17:7
# text = Don Julian retired to his tent in great trouble of mind, and fear came upon him that the Bishop Oppas might play him false; for it is the lot of traitors ever to distrust each other.
1	Don	Don	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	Julian	Julian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	retired	retire	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	tent	tent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	trouble	trouble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	mind	mind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	fear	fear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
16	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obl	_	_
18	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	Bishop	Bishop	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	compound	_	_
21	Oppas	Oppas	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
22	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	play	play	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	advcl	_	_
24	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obj	_	_
25	false	false	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
27	for	for	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
28	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
29	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	31	cop	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	lot	lot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	traitors	traitor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	nmod	_	_
34	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	36	advmod	_	_
35	to	to	PART	TO	_	36	mark	_	_
36	distrust	distrust	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
37	each	each	DET	DT	ExtPos=PRON|PronType=Rcp	36	obj	_	_
38	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	fixed	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **retire** | past | Don |  |  | great trouble of mind |  | to Don's tent | vn resign-10.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **come** | past | fear |  |  |  |  | upon Don | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon he=Location |
| 3 | **play** | might | the Bishop Oppas | Don |  |  |  | false *property* | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
| 4 | **is** | present | Oppas |  |  |  |  | for the lot; of traitors | tree rules |
| 5 | **distrust** | to-infinitive | Don *not said here* | each |  |  | ever |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer each=Stimulus |
| 6 | **trouble** |  |  | mind |  |  |  |  | nom trouble «cognition 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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