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title: It is thus the envious man brings humiliation and reproach upon hims… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: It is thus the envious man brings humiliation and reproach upon himself, in endeavouring to degrade a meritorious rival. Who acts: result, envious man. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Muza Arrives At Toledo.—interview Between Him and Taric., with its dependency
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Muza Arrives At Toledo.—interview Between Him and Taric., sentence 38

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It is thus the envious man brings humiliation and reproach upon himself, in endeavouring to degrade a meritorious rival.

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**Who acts:** result, envious man · **What happens:** be, bring, endeavour, degrade · **To what, where:** humiliation, meritorious rival

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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 (result, envious man), 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:pg77685:32:38
# text = It is thus the envious man brings humiliation and reproach upon himself, in endeavouring to degrade a meritorious rival.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	envious	envious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	brings	bring	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	humiliation	humiliation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	reproach	reproach	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
11	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
15	endeavouring	endeavour	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	degrade	degrade	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	xcomp	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	meritorious	meritorious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	rival	rival	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | result |  |  |  |  | thus *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **bring** | present | the envious man | humiliation and reproach |  |  |  | upon Muza | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent humiliation=Theme |
| 3 | **endeavour** | gerund | the envious man *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **degrade** | to-infinitive | the envious man *not said here* | a meritorious rival |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent rival=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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