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title: No sooner did Roderick find himself in possession of the crown, than… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: No sooner did Roderick find himself in possession of the crown, than the love of power, and the jealousy of rule, were awakened in his breast. Who acts: Roderick, love. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, The Rise of Don Roderick.—his Government., with its dependen
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, The Rise of Don Roderick.—his Government., sentence 18

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No sooner did Roderick find himself in possession of the crown, than the love of power, and the jealousy of rule, were awakened in his breast.

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**Who acts:** Roderick, love · **What happens:** find, awaken, possess, love · **To what, where:** Roderick, possession, jealousy, breast, crown, power

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This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, The Rise of Don Roderick.—his Government.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Roderick, love), 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:pg77685:3:18
# text = No sooner did Roderick find himself in possession of the crown, than the love of power, and the jealousy of rule, were awakened in his breast.
1	No	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	2	det	_	_
2	sooner	soon	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	5	advmod	_	_
3	did	do	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	Roderick	Roderick	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	find	find	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	5	obj	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	possession	possession	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	crown	crown	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	than	than	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	love	love	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	vocative	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	jealousy	jealousy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj:pass	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	rule	rule	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
25	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux:pass	_	_
26	awakened	awaken	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	acl	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	breast	breast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** | past · do-support | Roderick | Roderick |  | possession of the crown |  | the love of power *vocative*; soon *property* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Topic |
| 2 | **awaken** | past · passive | the love of power *not said here* | the jealousy of rule |  | Roderick's breast |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 3 | **possess** |  |  | the crown |  |  |  |  | nom possession «act transitive»: of=patient |
| 4 | **love** |  |  | power |  |  |  |  | nom love «feeling 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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