---
title: The very security and peace which he had produced throughout his dom… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: The very security and peace which he had produced throughout his dominions, by his precautions to abolish the means and habitudes of war, had effected a disastrous change in his character. Who acts: precautions, the. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, The Story of
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77685/6/8/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Legends of the conquest of Spain](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77685/) / [The Story of Florinda.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77685/6/) / 8

# Legends of the conquest of Spain, The Story of Florinda., sentence 8

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
The very security and peace which he had produced throughout his dominions, by his precautions to abolish the means and habitudes of war, had effected a disastrous change in his character.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** precautions, the · **What happens:** produce, abolish, mean, affect · **To what, where:** security, habitudes · **Speech:** someone speaks here

<!-- .vabout -->
This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, The Story of Florinda.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (precautions, the), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

<!-- .note-en -->
**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg77685:6:8
# text = The very security and peace which he had produced throughout his dominions, by his precautions to abolish the means and habitudes of war, had effected a disastrous change in his character.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	very	very	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	security	security	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	peace	peace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
6	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
8	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	produced	produce	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
10	throughout	throughout	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	dominions	dominion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	by	by	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	precautions	precaution	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	abolish	abolish	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	advcl	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	nsubj	_	_
20	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	ccomp	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
22	habitudes	habitude	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nsubj:pass	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	war	war	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
26	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
27	effected	affect	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	ccomp	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	disastrous	disastrous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	change	change	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
31	in	in	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
33	character	character	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **produce** | past · perfect · passive | charm's precautions | the security and peace |  |  | throughout charm's dominions | which *nsubj:pass*; charm *nsubj* | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Result |
| 2 | **abolish** | to-infinitive | charm's precautions *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **mean** | present | the |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **affect** | past · perfect · passive |  | habitudes of war |  |  |  | a disastrous change *obj* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Experiencer change=Result |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77685/6/7/)
- next →: [sentence 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77685/6/9/)
- ↑ back to [The Story of Florinda.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77685/6/)