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title: The friends of his house, and the disaffected of all classes, hasten… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: The friends of his house, and the disaffected of all classes, hastened to join him; and he advanced rapidly, and without opposition, through an unarmed and enervated land. Who acts: friends, arm. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, The Rise of Don Roderick.—his Gov
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, The Rise of Don Roderick.—his Government., sentence 7

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The friends of his house, and the disaffected of all classes, hastened to join him; and he advanced rapidly, and without opposition, through an unarmed and enervated land.

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**Who acts:** friends, arm · **What happens:** disaffect, hasten, join, advance, unarm, enervate · **To what, where:** classes, arm, unarmed land

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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 (friends, arm), 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:pg77685:3:7
# text = The friends of his house, and the disaffected of all classes, hastened to join him; and he advanced rapidly, and without opposition, through an unarmed and enervated land.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	disaffected	disaffect	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	12	det	_	_
12	classes	class	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	hastened	hasten	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	acl	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	join	join	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	xcomp	_	_
17	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
20	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	advanced	advance	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
22	rapidly	rapidly	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
25	without	without	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	opposition	opposition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
28	through	through	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
29	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
30	unarmed	unarm	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	33	amod	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	enervated	enervate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	30	conj	_	_
33	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **disaffect** | participle | the friends of arm's house |  |  |  |  | of all classes | tree rules |
| 2 | **hasten** | participle |  | all classes *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **join** | to-infinitive |  | arm |  |  |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient |
| 4 | **advance** | past | arm |  |  | a unarmed land |  | without opposition; rapidly *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme through land=Initial\_Location |
| 5 | **unarm** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **enervate** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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