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title: “A pestilence on ye both,” cried Theodomir, “for a brace of misbegot… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: “A pestilence on ye both,” cried Theodomir, “for a brace of misbegotten madmen! Who acts: pestilence. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Expedition of Abdalasis Against Seville and the “land of Tadmir.”, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Expedition of Abdalasis Against Seville and the “land of Tadmir.”, sentence 59

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“A pestilence on ye both,” cried Theodomir, “for a brace of misbegotten madmen!

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**Who acts:** pestilence · **What happens:** cry · **To what, where:** Theodomir

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This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Expedition of Abdalasis Against Seville and the “land of Tadmir.”. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (pestilence), 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:pg77685:31:59
# text = “A pestilence on ye both,” cried Theodomir, “for a brace of misbegotten madmen!
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	pestilence	pestilence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	ye	ye	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	3	nmod	_	_
6	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	3	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
9	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	Theodomir	Theodomir	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	for	for	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	brace	brace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	misbegotten	misbegotten	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	madmen	madman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cry** *speech: express* | past | a pestilence on ye  both | Theodomir |  |  |  | for a brace of misbegotten madmen | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent theodomir=Topic |

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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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