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title: How Taric el Tuerto captured the City of Toledo through the Aid of t… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: How Taric el Tuerto captured the City of Toledo through the Aid of the Jews, and how he found the famous Talismanic Table of Solomon 213 Who acts: Taric el, el. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Opening, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Opening, sentence 78

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How Taric el Tuerto captured the City of Toledo through the Aid of the Jews, and how he found the famous Talismanic Table of Solomon 213

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**Who acts:** Taric el, el · **What happens:** capture, find · **To what, where:** City, Aid, famous Talismanic Table

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This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Opening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Taric el, el), 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:pg77685:1:78
# text = How Taric el Tuerto captured the City of Toledo through the Aid of the Jews, and how he found the famous Talismanic Table of Solomon 213
1	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	_
2	Taric	Taric	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	el	El	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	Tuerto	Tuerto	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	flat	_	_
5	captured	capture	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	City	City	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	Toledo	Toledo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
10	through	through	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	Aid	Aid	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	Jews	Jew	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
18	how	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	20	advmod	_	_
19	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
22	famous	famous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
23	Talismanic	Talismanic	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	Table	Table	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	Solomon	Solomon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	_
27	213	213	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	24	list	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **capture** | past | Taric el | the City of Toledo |  | the Aid of the Jews |  |  | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent city=Theme |
| 2 | **find** | past | el | the famous Talismanic Table of Solomon |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent table=Topic |

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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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