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title: He repeated his general orders, that they should inflict no wanton i… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: He repeated his general orders, that they should inflict no wanton injury, nor plunder any place that offered no resistance. Who acts: rest, orders, place. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Chapter I., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter I., sentence 44

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He repeated his general orders, that they should inflict no wanton injury, nor plunder any place that offered no resistance.

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**Who acts:** rest, orders, place · **What happens:** repeat, inflict, offer, order · **To what, where:** general orders, wanton injury, resistance

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This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Chapter I.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (rest, orders, place), 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:pg77685:22:44
# text = He repeated his general orders, that they should inflict no wanton injury, nor plunder any place that offered no resistance.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	repeated	repeat	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
4	general	general	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	orders	order	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
8	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
9	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	inflict	inflict	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	_
11	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	13	det	_	_
12	wanton	wanton	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	injury	injury	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	16	cc	_	_
16	plunder	plunder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
17	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	18	det	_	_
18	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
19	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	20	nsubj	_	_
20	offered	offer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	acl:relcl	_	_
21	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	22	det	_	_
22	resistance	resistance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **repeat** | past | rest | rest's general orders |  |  |  | plunder *obl*; any place *obj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **inflict** | should | orders *= order* | no wanton injury |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **offer** | past | any place | no resistance |  |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent resistance=Theme |
| 4 | **order** |  | rest |  |  |  |  |  | nom order «communication 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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