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title: COUNT JULIAN.—HIS FORTUNES IN AFRICA.—HE HEARS OF THE DISHONOUR OF H… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: COUNT JULIAN.—HIS FORTUNES IN AFRICA.—HE HEARS OF THE DISHONOUR OF HIS CHILD.—HIS CONDUCT THEREUPON. Who acts: you, JULIAN. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Chapter VIII., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter VIII., sentence 1

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COUNT JULIAN.—HIS FORTUNES IN AFRICA.—HE HEARS OF THE DISHONOUR OF HIS CHILD.—HIS CONDUCT THEREUPON.

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**Who acts:** you, JULIAN · **What happens:** count, dishonour, conduct · **To what, where:** JULIAN, CHILD

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This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Chapter VIII.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, JULIAN), 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:pg77685:9:1
# text = COUNT JULIAN.—HIS FORTUNES IN AFRICA.—HE HEARS OF THE DISHONOUR OF HIS CHILD.—HIS CONDUCT THEREUPON.
1	COUNT	count	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	JULIAN	JULIAN	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	HIS	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	FORTUNES	fortune	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obl	_	_
7	IN	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	AFRICA	AFRICA	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	HE	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	HEARS	Hear	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	1	parataxis	_	_
13	OF	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	THE	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	DISHONOUR	dishonour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
16	OF	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	HIS	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	CHILD	child	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	HIS	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	CONDUCT	conduct	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
23	THEREUPON	thereupon	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **count** | imperative | you *not said here* | JULIAN |  |  |  | JULIAN's FORTUNES in AFRICA *obl*; HEARS  JULIAN of the DISHONOUR of JULIAN's CHILD *parataxis*; JULIAN's CONDUCT *obj*; thereupon *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **dishonour** |  |  | JULIAN's CHILD |  |  |  |  | nom dishonour «state transitive»: of=patient |
| 3 | **conduct** |  | JULIAN |  |  |  |  |  | nom conduct «act 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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