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description: They gathered together secretly at Gezira Alhadra, that is to say, the Green Island; where they held a conference with Count Julian in presence of Taric ben Zeyad. Who acts: galleys, that. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Chapter IX., with its dependency tree an
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter IX., sentence 33

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They gathered together secretly at Gezira Alhadra, that is to say, the Green Island; where they held a conference with Count Julian in presence of Taric ben Zeyad.

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**Who acts:** galleys, that · **What happens:** gather, be, hold · **To what, where:** Gezira, conference, presence

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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, that), 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:pg77685:10:33
# text = They gathered together secretly at Gezira Alhadra, that is to say, the Green Island; where they held a conference with Count Julian in presence of Taric ben Zeyad.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	gathered	gather	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	together	together	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	secretly	secretly	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Gezira	Gezira	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
7	Alhadra	Alhadra	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	12	nsubj:outer	_	_
10	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	cop	_	_
11	to	to	PART	TO	_	12	mark	_	_
12	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	Green	Green	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	Island	Island	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
18	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	20	advmod	_	_
19	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	held	hold	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	advcl	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	conference	conference	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	with	with	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	Count	Count	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	Julian	Julian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	presence	presence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	Taric	Taric	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
30	ben	ben	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	_
31	Zeyad	Zeyad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **gather** | past | galleys *= galley* |  |  | Gezira |  | secretly, together *property* | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | present | that |  |  |  |  | the Green Island *obj*; say *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **hold** | past | galleys *= galley* | a conference |  | presence of Taric ben |  | with Count Julian | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent conference=Theme in presence=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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