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title: What then was their dismay, when scattered fugitives, wild with horr… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: What then was their dismay, when scattered fugitives, wild with horror and affright, brought them tidings of the entire overthrow of that mighty host, and the disappearance of the king! Who acts: king. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Expedition of Magued Agains
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Expedition of Magued Against Cordova.—defence of the Patriot Pelistes., sentence 3

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What then was their dismay, when scattered fugitives, wild with horror and affright, brought them tidings of the entire overthrow of that mighty host, and the disappearance of the king!

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**Who acts:** king · **What happens:** be, bring, overthrow, disappear · **To what, where:** dismay, inhabitants, mighty host

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This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Expedition of Magued Against Cordova.—defence of the Patriot Pelistes.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (king), 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:pg77685:24:3
# text = What then was their dismay, when scattered fugitives, wild with horror and affright, brought them tidings of the entire overthrow of that mighty host, and the disappearance of the king!
1	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	17	nsubj:outer	_	_
2	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	5	advmod	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	dismay	dismay	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	8	advmod	_	_
8	scattered	scatter	ADJ	VBN	_	9	amod	_	_
9	fugitives	fugitive	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	horror	horror	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	affright	affright	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
17	brought	bring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
18	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	_
19	tidings	tiding	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	entire	entire	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	overthrow	overthrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	27	det	_	_
26	mighty	mighty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	host	host	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	disappearance	disappearance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  | inhabitants's dismay |  |  | then | inhabitants *= inhabitant* *nmod:poss*; scattered fugitives *appos* | tree rules |
| 2 | **bring** | past |  | inhabitants *= inhabitant* |  |  |  | the disappearance of the king *obl*; What *nsubj:outer*; tidings of the entire overthrow of that mighty host *obj* | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent they=Destination tiding=Theme |
| 3 | **overthrow** |  |  | that mighty host |  |  |  |  | nom overthrow «act transitive»: of=patient |
| 4 | **disappear** |  | the king |  |  |  |  |  | nom disappearance «act intransitive»: of=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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