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title: The Christians cursed him as the cause of all their woe; the Moslems… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: The Christians cursed him as the cause of all their woe; the Moslems despised and distrusted him as a traitor. Who acts: Christians, Moslems. 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 
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Legend of Count Julian and His Family., sentence 14

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The Christians cursed him as the cause of all their woe; the Moslems despised and distrusted him as a traitor.

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**Who acts:** Christians, Moslems · **What happens:** curse, despise, distrust, cause · **To what, where:** tree, woe

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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 (Christians, Moslems), 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:pg77685:39:14
# text = The Christians cursed him as the cause of all their woe; the Moslems despised and distrusted him as a traitor.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Christians	Christian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	cursed	curse	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	as	as	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	cause	cause	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	11	det:predet	_	_
10	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	woe	woe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	Moslems	Moslem	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
15	despised	despise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	distrusted	distrust	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
18	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	_
19	as	as	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	traitor	traitor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	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 | **curse** | past | the Christians | tree |  |  |  | as the cause of Christians's woe | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent he=Theme as cause=Attribute |
| 2 | **despise** | past | the Moslems |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **distrust** | past | the Moslems *not said here* | tree |  |  |  | as a traitor | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus |
| 4 | **cause** |  |  | Christians's woe |  |  |  |  | nom cause «event 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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