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title: Wherever they touched, Count Julian despatched emissaries, to assemb… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: Wherever they touched, Count Julian despatched emissaries, to assemble his friends and adherents at an appointed place. Who acts: galleys, you, Julian. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Chapter IX., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter IX., sentence 32

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Wherever they touched, Count Julian despatched emissaries, to assemble his friends and adherents at an appointed place.

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**Who acts:** galleys, you, Julian · **What happens:** touch, count, despatch, assemble, appoint · **To what, where:** emissaries, friends, appointed place

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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 (galleys, you, Julian), 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:pg77685:10:32
# text = Wherever they touched, Count Julian despatched emissaries, to assemble his friends and adherents at an appointed place.
1	Wherever	wherever	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	touched	touch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	Count	count	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	Julian	Julian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	despatched	despatch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	ccomp	_	_
8	emissaries	emissary	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	to	to	PART	TO	_	11	mark	_	_
11	assemble	assemble	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obj	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	adherents	adherent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	conj	_	_
16	at	at	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	appointed	appoint	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	amod	_	_
19	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **touch** | past | galleys *= galley* |  |  |  |  | wherever *property* | vn contiguous\_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **count** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent clause=Attribute |
| 3 | **despatch** | past | Julian | emissaries |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **assemble** | to-infinitive | you *not said here* | JULIAN's friends and adherents |  | a appointed place |  |  | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent friend=Theme |
| 5 | **appoint** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: 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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