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title: To this expounder of mysteries Alahor applied, to learn whether any… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: To this expounder of mysteries Alahor applied, to learn whether any secret treason menaced his safety. Who acts: Alahor, secret treason. 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
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Legend of Count Julian and His Family., sentence 49

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To this expounder of mysteries Alahor applied, to learn whether any secret treason menaced his safety.

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**Who acts:** Alahor, secret treason · **What happens:** apply, learn, menace · **To what, where:** safety

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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 (Alahor, secret treason), 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:pg77685:39:49
# text = To this expounder of mysteries Alahor applied, to learn whether any secret treason menaced his safety.
1	To	to	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
3	expounder	expounder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	mysteries	mystery	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
6	Alahor	Alahor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	applied	apply	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	learn	learn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	advcl	_	_
11	whether	whether	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
12	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	14	det	_	_
13	secret	secret	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	treason	treason	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	menaced	menace	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	_
16	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	safety	safety	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **apply** | past | Alahor |  |  |  |  | to this expounder of mysteries | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **learn** | to-infinitive | Alahor *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **menace** | past | any secret treason | Suleiman's safety |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus safety=Experiencer |

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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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