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title: His spirit was haughty in the extreme, but destitute of true magnani… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: His spirit was haughty in the extreme, but destitute of true magnanimity, and when once wounded turned to gall and venom. Who acts: spirit. 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 27

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His spirit was haughty in the extreme, but destitute of true magnanimity, and when once wounded turned to gall and venom.

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**Who acts:** spirit · **What happens:** be, destitute, turn, gall · **To what, where:** extreme

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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 (spirit), 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:pg77685:9:27
# text = His spirit was haughty in the extreme, but destitute of true magnanimity, and when once wounded turned to gall and venom.
1	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	spirit	spirit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	haughty	haughty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	extreme	extreme	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	destitute	destitute	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	true	true	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	magnanimity	magnanimity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
16	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	18	advmod	_	_
17	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	18	advmod	_	_
18	wounded	wound	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux:pass	_	_
19	turned	turn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	gall	gall	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	xcomp	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	venom	venom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | countenance's spirit |  |  | the extreme |  | haughty *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **destitute** | present |  |  |  |  |  | of true magnanimity | tree rules |
| 3 | **turn** | past · passive | countenance's spirit *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **gall** | to-infinitive | countenance's spirit *not said here* |  |  |  |  | venom *conj* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=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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