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title: Feud between the Arab Generals.—They are summoned to appear before t… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: Feud between the Arab Generals.—They are summoned to appear before the Caliph at Damascus.—Reception of Taric 273 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 92

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Feud between the Arab Generals.—They are summoned to appear before the Caliph at Damascus.—Reception of Taric 273

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**What happens:** summon, appear, receive · **To what, where:** Generals, Damascus, Feud, Taric

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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: 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:pg77685:1:92
# text = Feud between the Arab Generals.—They are summoned to appear before the Caliph at Damascus.—Reception of Taric 273
1	Feud	feud	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
2	between	between	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	Arab	Arab	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	Generals	General	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	1	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
9	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux:pass	_	_
10	summoned	summon	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	conj	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	appear	appear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	xcomp	_	_
13	before	before	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	Caliph	Caliph	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
16	at	at	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	Damascus	Damascus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	Reception	reception	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	Taric	Taric	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
23	273	273	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	22	flat	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **summon** | present · passive |  | Generals *= general* |  |  |  |  | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **appear** | to-infinitive |  |  |  | Damascus | before the Caliph |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before caliph=Location |
| 4 | **receive** |  |  | Taric |  |  |  |  | nom reception «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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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