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title: But sudden humiliation awaited him in the very moment of his highest… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: But sudden humiliation awaited him in the very moment of his highest triumph. Who acts: sudden humiliation, FEUD. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Chapter XIII., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter XIII., sentence 4

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But sudden humiliation awaited him in the very moment of his highest triumph.

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**Who acts:** sudden humiliation, FEUD · **What happens:** await, triumph · **To what, where:** FEUD

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This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Chapter XIII.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sudden humiliation, FEUD), 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:pg77685:34:4
# text = But sudden humiliation awaited him in the very moment of his highest triumph.
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	sudden	sudden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	humiliation	humiliation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	awaited	await	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	very	very	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	moment	moment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
12	highest	high	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	13	amod	_	_
13	triumph	triumph	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **await** | past | sudden humiliation | FEUD |  |  | moment |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **triumph** |  | FEUD |  |  |  |  |  | nom triumph «event intransitive»: 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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