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title: But the Christians drew back with horror from the deed, and said—“In… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: But the Christians drew back with horror from the deed, and said—“In the hand of God is vengeance, let not her blood be upon our heads.” Who acts: Christians, blood. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Legend of Count Julian and His Family., with its dependency tre
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Legend of Count Julian and His Family., sentence 166

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But the Christians drew back with horror from the deed, and said—“In the hand of God is vengeance, let not her blood be upon our heads.”

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**Who acts:** Christians, blood · **What happens:** draw back, say, be, let · **To what, where:** hand vengeance, blood, heads · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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, blood), 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:pg77685:39:166
# text = But the Christians drew back with horror from the deed, and said—“In the hand of God is vengeance, let not her blood be upon our heads.”
1	But	but	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	Christians	Christian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	drew	draw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	advcl	_	_
5	back	back	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	horror	horror	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	from	from	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	deed	deed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	In	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
21	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	22	cop	_	_
22	vengeance	vengeance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
24	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	22	appos	_	_
25	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	27	advmod	_	_
26	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
28	be	be	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	xcomp	_	_
29	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
31	heads	head	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	24	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	22	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **draw back** | past | the Christians |  |  |  |  | with horror; from the deed | vn split-23.2 «NP V PP.co-patient»: agent=Patient from deed=Co-Patient |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is a** *in a quote* | present |  | hand vengeance |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **let** *in a quote* | infinitive |  | Alahor's blood |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **be** *in a quote* | infinitive | Alahor's blood *not said here* |  |  | our heads |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon head=Location |

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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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