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title: While, therefore, the two officers made vigilant dispositions to che… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: While, therefore, the two officers made vigilant dispositions to check any movement on the part of the soldiery, they let loose the blind fury of the populace, by publishing the fatal mandate. Who acts: two officers, officers. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Fa
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Fate of Abdalasis and Exilona.—death of Muza., sentence 34

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While, therefore, the two officers made vigilant dispositions to check any movement on the part of the soldiery, they let loose the blind fury of the populace, by publishing the fatal mandate.

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**Who acts:** two officers, officers · **What happens:** make, check, let, lose, publish, infuriate · **To what, where:** vigilant dispositions, movement, part, blind fury, fatal mandate, populace

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This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Fate of Abdalasis and Exilona.—death of Muza.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (two officers, officers), 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:pg77685:38:34
# text = While, therefore, the two officers made vigilant dispositions to check any movement on the part of the soldiery, they let loose the blind fury of the populace, by publishing the fatal mandate.
1	While	while	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	therefore	therefore	ADV	RB	_	8	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	nummod	_	_
7	officers	officer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
8	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	vigilant	vigilant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	dispositions	disposition	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	check	check	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	advcl	_	_
13	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	14	det	_	_
14	movement	movement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	on	on	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	soldiery	soldiery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	let	let	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
24	loose	lose	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	xcomp	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	blind	blind	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	fury	fury	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	populace	populace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
32	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	33	mark	_	_
33	publishing	publish	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	24	advcl	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
35	fatal	fatal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	mandate	mandate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	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 | **make** | past | the two officers | vigilant dispositions |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset disposition=Product |
| 2 | **check** | to-infinitive | the two officers *not said here* | any movement |  | the part of the soldiery |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent movement=Theme |
| 3 | **let** | past | officers *= officer* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **lose** | infinitive | officers *= officer* *not said here* | the blind fury of the populace |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fury=Eventuality |
| 5 | **publish** | gerund | officers *= officer* *not said here* | the fatal mandate |  |  |  |  | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mandate=Result |
| 6 | **infuriate** |  |  | the populace |  |  |  |  | nom fury «feeling 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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