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title: May desolation fall upon thy dwelling, and confusion and defeat upon… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: May desolation fall upon thy dwelling, and confusion and defeat upon thy realm!” Who acts: May desolation. 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 44

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May desolation fall upon thy dwelling, and confusion and defeat upon thy realm!”

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**Who acts:** May desolation · **What happens:** fall · **To what, where:** confusion, dwelling

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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 (May desolation), 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:pg77685:9:44
# text = May desolation fall upon thy dwelling, and confusion and defeat upon thy realm!”
1	May	may	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	amod	_	_
2	desolation	desolation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	fall	fall	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	dwelling	dwelling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	confusion	confusion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	defeat	defeat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
12	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	realm	realm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fall** | infinitive | May desolation | confusion upon thy realm and defeat |  | thy dwelling |  |  | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme upon dwelling=Location |

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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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