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title: The camp was spread out in one of those pastoral valleys which lie a… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: The camp was spread out in one of those pastoral valleys which lie at the feet of the Barbary hills, with the great range of the Atlas mountains towering in the distance. Who acts: pastoral valleys, Atlas mountains. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Chapter IX., 
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter IX., sentence 3

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The camp was spread out in one of those pastoral valleys which lie at the feet of the Barbary hills, with the great range of the Atlas mountains towering in the distance.

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**Who acts:** pastoral valleys, Atlas mountains · **What happens:** spread out, lie, tower · **To what, where:** camp, feet

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This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Chapter IX.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (pastoral valleys, Atlas mountains), 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:pg77685:10:3
# text = The camp was spread out in one of those pastoral valleys which lie at the feet of the Barbary hills, with the great range of the Atlas mountains towering in the distance.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	camp	camp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	spread	spread	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	out	out	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	obl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	11	det	_	_
10	pastoral	pastoral	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	valleys	valley	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	_
12	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	_
13	lie	lie	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	acl:relcl	_	_
14	at	at	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	feet	foot	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	Barbary	Barbary	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	hills	hill	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
22	with	with	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	range	range	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	Atlas	Atlas	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
29	mountains	mountain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nmod	_	_
30	towering	tower	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	29	acl	_	_
31	in	in	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	distance	distance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **spread out** | past · passive |  | the camp |  |  |  | in one of that pastoral valleys | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in one=Destination |
| 2 | **lie** | present | that pastoral valleys |  |  | the feet of the Barbary hills |  | with the great range of the Atlas mountains | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at foot=Location |
| 3 | **tower** | gerund | the Atlas mountains *not said here* |  |  |  |  | in the distance | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in distance=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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