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title: The fiery son of Ishmael foamed with rage at being thus checked in h… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: The fiery son of Ishmael foamed with rage at being thus checked in his career and foiled in his revenge. Who acts: fiery son, son. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Capture of Granada.—subjugation of the Alpuxarra Mountains., with its dependency tree and the prag
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Capture of Granada.—subjugation of the Alpuxarra Mountains., sentence 41

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The fiery son of Ishmael foamed with rage at being thus checked in his career and foiled in his revenge.

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**Who acts:** fiery son, son · **What happens:** foam, check, foil, revenge · **To what, where:** career, revenge

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This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Capture of Granada.—subjugation of the Alpuxarra Mountains.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fiery son, son), 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:pg77685:23:41
# text = The fiery son of Ishmael foamed with rage at being thus checked in his career and foiled in his revenge.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	fiery	fiery	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Ishmael	Ishmael	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	foamed	foam	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	rage	rage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
9	at	at	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
10	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	aux:pass	_	_
11	thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	checked	check	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	parataxis	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	career	career	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	foiled	foil	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	conj	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	revenge	revenge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **foam** | past | the fiery son of Ishmael |  |  |  |  | with rage | vn entity\_specific\_modes\_being-47.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with rage=Theme |
| 2 | **check** | gerund · passive |  |  |  | son's career |  | thus *property* | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location»: in career=Location |
| 3 | **foil** | participle |  |  |  | son's revenge |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **revenge** |  | son |  |  |  |  |  | nom revenge «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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