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title: He received Alahor with a gloomy and sinister aspect; pretending to… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: He received Alahor with a gloomy and sinister aspect; pretending to have discovered fearful portents in the heavens, and to have had strange dreams and mystic visions. Who acts: astrologer. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Legend of Count Julian and His Family.,
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Legend of Count Julian and His Family., sentence 53

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He received Alahor with a gloomy and sinister aspect; pretending to have discovered fearful portents in the heavens, and to have had strange dreams and mystic visions.

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**Who acts:** astrologer · **What happens:** receive, pretend, discover, have · **To what, where:** Alahor, fearful portents, heavens, strange dreams

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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 (astrologer), 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:pg77685:39:53
# text = He received Alahor with a gloomy and sinister aspect; pretending to have discovered fearful portents in the heavens, and to have had strange dreams and mystic visions.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	received	receive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	Alahor	Alahor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
6	gloomy	gloomy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	sinister	sinister	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	_
9	aspect	aspect	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
11	pretending	pretend	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
13	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	aux	_	_
14	discovered	discover	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	11	xcomp	_	_
15	fearful	fearful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	portents	portent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	heavens	heaven	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
23	have	have	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	aux	_	_
24	had	have	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	14	parataxis	_	_
25	strange	strange	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	dreams	dream	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obj	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
28	mystic	mystic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	visions	vision	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **receive** | past | astrologer | Alahor |  |  |  | with a gloomy sinister aspect | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent alahor=Theme |
| 2 | **pretend** | gerund | astrologer *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **discover** | to-infinitive · perfect | astrologer *not said here* | fearful portents |  | the heavens |  |  | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent portent=Topic |
| 4 | **have** | to-infinitive · perfect |  | strange dreams and mystic visions |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dream=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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