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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter XIII., sentence 7

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Taric was represented as rash, arbitrary, and prodigal, and as injuring the discipline of the army, by sometimes treating it with extreme rigour, and at other times giving way to licentiousness and profusion.

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**What happens:** represent, injure, treat, give, discipline · **To what, where:** Taric, discipline, way, licentiousness, army

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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: 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:pg77685:34:7
# text = Taric was represented as rash, arbitrary, and prodigal, and as injuring the discipline of the army, by sometimes treating it with extreme rigour, and at other times giving way to licentiousness and profusion.
1	Taric	Taric	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	represented	represent	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	as	as	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	rash	rash	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	arbitrary	arbitrary	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	prodigal	prodigal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
14	injuring	injure	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	discipline	discipline	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	army	army	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
22	sometimes	sometimes	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	23	advmod	_	_
23	treating	treat	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	conj	_	_
24	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obj	_	_
25	with	with	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	extreme	extreme	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	rigour	rigour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
30	at	at	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	times	time	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	obl	_	_
33	giving	give	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	conj	_	_
34	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obj	_	_
35	to	to	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	licentiousness	licentiousness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
38	profusion	profusion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **represent** | past · passive |  | Taric |  |  |  | as rash and arbitrary and prodigal | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: subject=Theme as rash=Attribute |
| 2 | **injure** | gerund |  | the discipline of the army |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **treat** | gerund |  | discipline |  |  |  | with extreme rigour; sometimes *property* | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP»: agent=Agent it=Recipient with rigour=Theme |
| 4 | **give** | gerund |  | way | licentiousness and profusion |  | time |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent way=Theme to licentiousness=Recipient |
| 5 | **discipline** |  |  | the army |  |  |  |  | nom discipline «cognition transitive»: of=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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