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title: The brutal eagerness to shed blood, which seems inherent in human na… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: The brutal eagerness to shed blood, which seems inherent in human nature, was awakened; and woe to the victims when that eagerness is quickened by religious hate! Who acts: blood, religious hate. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Fate of Abdalasis and Exilona.—de
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Fate of Abdalasis and Exilona.—death of Muza., sentence 45

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The brutal eagerness to shed blood, which seems inherent in human nature, was awakened; and woe to the victims when that eagerness is quickened by religious hate!

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**Who acts:** blood, religious hate · **What happens:** shed, seem, awaken, quicken · **To what, where:** blood, brutal eagerness, eagerness

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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 (blood, religious hate), 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:pg77685:38:45
# text = The brutal eagerness to shed blood, which seems inherent in human nature, was awakened; and woe to the victims when that eagerness is quickened by religious hate!
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	brutal	brutal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	eagerness	eagerness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	shed	shed	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	acl	_	_
6	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj	_	_
9	seems	seem	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	_
10	inherent	inherent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	xcomp	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	human	human	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	nature	nature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
15	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux:pass	_	_
16	awakened	awaken	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	woe	woe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	victims	victim	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nmod	_	_
23	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	27	advmod	_	_
24	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	25	det	_	_
25	eagerness	eagerness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nsubj:pass	_	_
26	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux:pass	_	_
27	quickened	quicken	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	advcl	_	_
28	by	by	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	religious	religious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	hate	hate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **shed** | to-infinitive |  | blood |  |  |  |  | vn substance\_emission-43.4-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location blood=Source |
| 2 | **seem** | present | blood |  |  |  |  | inherent *property* | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **awaken** | past · passive |  | the brutal eagerness |  |  |  | woe to the victims *obl* | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 4 | **quicken** | present · passive | religious hate | that eagerness |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent subject=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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