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title: The jealousy of Roderick for the security of his crown was soon agai… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: The jealousy of Roderick for the security of his crown was soon again aroused, and his measures were prompt and severe. Who acts: measures, jealousy. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, The Rise of Don Roderick.—his Government., with its dependency tree and the pra
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, The Rise of Don Roderick.—his Government., sentence 30

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The jealousy of Roderick for the security of his crown was soon again aroused, and his measures were prompt and severe.

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**Who acts:** measures, jealousy · **What happens:** arouse, be, crown, measure · **To what, where:** jealousy

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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 (measures, jealousy), 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:pg77685:3:30
# text = The jealousy of Roderick for the security of his crown was soon again aroused, and his measures were prompt and severe.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	jealousy	jealousy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Roderick	Roderick	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	security	security	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	crown	crown	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
11	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
12	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	14	advmod	_	_
13	again	again	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	aroused	arouse	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
17	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	measures	measure	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nsubj	_	_
19	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
20	prompt	prompt	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	parataxis	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	severe	severe	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **arouse** | past · passive |  | the jealousy of Roderick for the security of jealousy's crown |  |  | again | soon *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer |
| 2 | **is** | past | jealousy's measures |  |  |  |  | prompt *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **be** |  | jealousy's measures *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **crown** |  | jealousy |  |  |  |  |  | nom crown «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
| 5 | **measure** |  | jealousy |  |  |  |  |  | nom measure «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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