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title: The Christians never mentioned her name without a curse, and the Mos… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: The Christians never mentioned her name without a curse, and the Moslems, the gainers by her misfortune, spake of her only by the appellation of Cava, the vilest epithet they could apply to woman. Who acts: Christians, presence. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, 
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Legend of Count Julian and His Family., sentence 26

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The Christians never mentioned her name without a curse, and the Moslems, the gainers by her misfortune, spake of her only by the appellation of Cava, the vilest epithet they could apply to woman.

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**Who acts:** Christians, presence · **What happens:** not mention, apply, name · **To what, where:** name, vilest epithet

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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, presence), 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:pg77685:39:26
# text = The Christians never mentioned her name without a curse, and the Moslems, the gainers by her misfortune, spake of her only by the appellation of Cava, the vilest epithet they could apply to woman.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Christians	Christian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	4	advmod	_	_
4	mentioned	mention	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	without	without	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	curse	curse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	Moslems	Moslem	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	gainers	gainer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	_
17	by	by	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	misfortune	misfortune	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	spake	speak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nmod	_	_
24	only	only	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
25	by	by	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	appellation	appellation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	conj	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	Cava	Cava	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
32	vilest	vile	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	33	amod	_	_
33	epithet	epithet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	appos	_	_
34	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj	_	_
35	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	36	aux	_	_
36	apply	apply	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	33	acl:relcl	_	_
37	to	to	PART	TO	_	38	mark	_	_
38	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **mention** *speech: other* | past | the Christians | presence's name |  |  |  | without a curse; the Moslems  the gainers by presence's misfortune and spake of presence and the appellation of Cava *obl* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent name=Topic |
| 2 | **apply** | could | Christians *= christian* | the vilest epithet *not said here* |  |  |  | woman *advcl* | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent epithet=Theme |
| 3 | **name** |  | presence |  |  |  |  |  | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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