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title: In concerting and executing this treacherous plot, it seemed as if h… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: In concerting and executing this treacherous plot, it seemed as if his whole nature was changed; every lofty and generous sentiment was stifled, and he stooped to the meanest dissimulation. Who acts: it, nature. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Chapter VIII., wi
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter VIII., sentence 30

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In concerting and executing this treacherous plot, it seemed as if his whole nature was changed; every lofty and generous sentiment was stifled, and he stooped to the meanest dissimulation.

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**Who acts:** it, nature · **What happens:** concert, execute, seem, change, stifle, stoop · **To what, where:** treacherous plot, whole nature, lofty sentiment

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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 (it, nature), 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:pg77685:9:30
# text = In concerting and executing this treacherous plot, it seemed as if his whole nature was changed; every lofty and generous sentiment was stifled, and he stooped to the meanest dissimulation.
1	In	in	SCONJ	IN	_	2	mark	_	_
2	concerting	concert	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	executing	execute	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	conj	_	_
5	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	7	det	_	_
6	treacherous	treacherous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	plot	plot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	seemed	seem	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
12	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
13	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
14	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	nature	nature	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
16	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux:pass	_	_
17	changed	change	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	25	punct	_	_
19	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	23	det	_	_
20	lofty	lofty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	generous	generous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	conj	_	_
23	sentiment	sentiment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj:pass	_	_
24	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux:pass	_	_
25	stifled	stifle	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
28	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
29	stooped	stoop	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	conj	_	_
30	to	to	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
32	meanest	mean	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	33	amod	_	_
33	dissimulation	dissimulation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **concert** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **execute** | gerund |  | this treacherous plot |  |  |  |  | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plot=Patient |
| 3 | **seem** | past | it |  |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute |
| 4 | **change** *a condition, not said to happen* | past · passive |  | king's whole nature |  |  |  |  | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
| 5 | **stifle** | past · passive |  | every lofty sentiment |  |  |  |  | vn suffocate-40.7 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Patient |
| 6 | **stoop** | past | nature |  |  |  |  | to the meanest dissimulation | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=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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