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title: A sudden insurrection of the Christians who had taken refuge in the… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: A sudden insurrection of the Christians who had taken refuge in the Asturian mountains quickened his suspicions, and inspired him with fears of some dangerous conspiracy against his power. Who acts: sudden insurrection, insurrection. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irv
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Legend of Count Julian and His Family., sentence 45

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A sudden insurrection of the Christians who had taken refuge in the Asturian mountains quickened his suspicions, and inspired him with fears of some dangerous conspiracy against his power.

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**Who acts:** sudden insurrection, insurrection · **What happens:** take, quicken, inspire, suspect, fear · **To what, where:** refuge, Asturian mountains, suspicions, insurrection, dangerous conspiracy

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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 (sudden insurrection, insurrection), 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:pg77685:39:45
# text = A sudden insurrection of the Christians who had taken refuge in the Asturian mountains quickened his suspicions, and inspired him with fears of some dangerous conspiracy against his power.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	sudden	sudden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	insurrection	insurrection	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	Christians	Christian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
7	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj	_	_
8	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	3	acl:relcl	_	_
10	refuge	refuge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	Asturian	Asturian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	mountains	mountain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
15	quickened	quicken	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
16	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	suspicions	suspicion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	inspired	inspire	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
21	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	_
22	with	with	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	fears	fear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	27	det	_	_
26	dangerous	dangerous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	conspiracy	conspiracy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	_
28	against	against	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | past · perfect | a sudden insurrection of the Christians | refuge |  | the Asturian mountains |  |  | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent refuge=Value in mountain=Location |
| 2 | **quicken** | past | a sudden insurrection of the Christians | insurrection's suspicions |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent suspicion=Patient |
| 3 | **inspire** | past | a sudden insurrection of the Christians *not said here* | insurrection |  |  |  | with fears of some dangerous conspiracy against insurrection's power | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer |
| 4 | **suspect** |  | insurrection |  |  |  |  |  | nom suspicion «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
| 5 | **fear** |  |  | some dangerous conspiracy against insurrection's power |  |  |  |  | nom fear «feeling 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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