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title: He had long loathed all communion with these men; for there is nothi… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: He had long loathed all communion with these men; for there is nothing which the open, ingenuous nature so much abhors as duplicity and treason. Who acts: Abdalasis, nothing. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Conduct of Abdalasis As Emir of Spain., with its depen
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Conduct of Abdalasis As Emir of Spain., sentence 22

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He had long loathed all communion with these men; for there is nothing which the open, ingenuous nature so much abhors as duplicity and treason.

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**Who acts:** Abdalasis, nothing · **What happens:** loathe, be, abhor · **To what, where:** communion

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This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Conduct of Abdalasis As Emir of Spain.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Abdalasis, nothing), 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:pg77685:36:22
# text = He had long loathed all communion with these men; for there is nothing which the open, ingenuous nature so much abhors as duplicity and treason.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	4	advmod	_	_
4	loathed	loathe	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	6	det	_	_
6	communion	communion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	9	det	_	_
9	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
11	for	for	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	13	expl	_	_
13	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
14	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	13	nsubj	_	_
15	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	23	nsubj	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
17	open	open	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
19	ingenuous	ingenuous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	nature	nature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
21	so	so	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	much	much	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	abhors	abhor	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	acl:relcl	_	_
24	as	as	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	duplicity	duplicity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	treason	treason	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **loathe** | past · perfect | Abdalasis | all communion |  |  |  | with this men; long *property* | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer communion=Stimulus |
| 2 | **be** | present | nothing |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **abhor** | present |  |  |  |  |  | as duplicity and treason; which *nsubj*; the open ingenuous nature *nsubj* | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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