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title: “There are fierce and cruel people who have come hither to murder th… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: “There are fierce and cruel people who have come hither to murder thee. Who acts: fierce people. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Legend of Count Julian and His Family., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Legend of Count Julian and His Family., sentence 114

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“There are fierce and cruel people who have come hither to murder thee.

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**Who acts:** fierce people · **What happens:** be, come, murder · **To what, where:** thee

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This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Legend of Count Julian and His Family.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fierce people), 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:pg77685:39:114
# text = “There are fierce and cruel people who have come hither to murder thee.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	3	expl	_	_
3	are	be	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	fierce	fierce	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	cruel	cruel	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
7	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
8	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	10	nsubj	_	_
9	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	come	come	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	7	acl:relcl	_	_
11	hither	hither	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	murder	murder	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	advcl	_	_
14	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **does** *in a quote* | present | fierce people |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **come** *in a quote* | present · perfect | fierce people |  |  |  |  | hither *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **murder** *in a quote* | to-infinitive | fierce people *not said here* | thee |  |  |  |  | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thou=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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