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title: “What blind confidence in fortune hast thou shown,” said he, “in ove… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: “What blind confidence in fortune hast thou shown,” said he, “in overrunning such a country, and assailing such powerful cities with thy scanty force! Who acts: blind confidence, thou, confidence. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Muza Arrives At Toledo.—intervie
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Muza Arrives At Toledo.—interview Between Him and Taric., sentence 19

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“What blind confidence in fortune hast thou shown,” said he, “in overrunning such a country, and assailing such powerful cities with thy scanty force!

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**Who acts:** blind confidence, thou, confidence · **What happens:** have, show, say, overrun, assail · **To what, where:** thou, country, such powerful cities · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Muza Arrives At Toledo.—interview Between Him and Taric.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (blind confidence, thou, confidence), 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:pg77685:32:19
# text = “What blind confidence in fortune hast thou shown,” said he, “in overrunning such a country, and assailing such powerful cities with thy scanty force!
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	What	what	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	4	det	_	_
3	blind	blind	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	confidence	confidence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	fortune	fortune	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
7	hast	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	ccomp	_	_
8	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	7	obj	_	_
9	shown	show	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
12	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	17	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
17	overrunning	overrun	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	advcl	_	_
18	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	20	det:predet	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	assailing	assail	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	17	conj	_	_
24	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
25	powerful	powerful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	cities	city	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obj	_	_
27	with	with	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	30	nmod:poss	_	_
29	scanty	scanty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	force	force	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** *in a quote* | present | what blind confidence in fortune | thou |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **show** *in a quote* | participle | thou *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **say** *speech: express* | past | confidence |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **overrun** *in a quote* | gerund | confidence *not said here* | such country |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **assail** *in a quote* | gerund | confidence *not said here* | such powerful cities |  |  |  | with thy scanty force | vn attack-60.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent city=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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