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description: One word from my sovereign, and the conquerors of Africa will pour their legions into Andalusia, rescue it from the domination of the unbeliever, and subdue it to the law of the Koran.” Who acts: One word, unbeliever. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Letter of M
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Letter of Muza to the Caliph.—second Expedition of Taric El Tuerto., sentence 7

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One word from my sovereign, and the conquerors of Africa will pour their legions into Andalusia, rescue it from the domination of the unbeliever, and subdue it to the law of the Koran.”

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**Who acts:** One word, unbeliever · **What happens:** pour, rescue, subdue, dominate · **To what, where:** legions, Andalusia, word, domination

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This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Letter of Muza to the Caliph.—second Expedition of Taric El Tuerto.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (One word, unbeliever), 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:pg77685:11:7
# text = One word from my sovereign, and the conquerors of Africa will pour their legions into Andalusia, rescue it from the domination of the unbeliever, and subdue it to the law of the Koran.”
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
3	from	from	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	sovereign	sovereign	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	conquerors	conqueror	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	Africa	Africa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
12	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	pour	pour	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
14	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	legions	legion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obj	_	_
16	into	into	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	Andalusia	Andalusia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
19	rescue	rescue	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	conj	_	_
20	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	obj	_	_
21	from	from	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	domination	domination	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	unbeliever	unbeliever	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	subdue	subdue	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	conj	_	_
30	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	obj	_	_
31	to	to	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	law	law	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	Koran	Koran	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pour** | future | One word from my sovereign | conquerors's legions |  | Andalusia |  | the conquerors of Africa *nsubj* | vn pour-9.5 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent legion=Theme into andalusia=Destination |
| 2 | **rescue** | present | One word from my sovereign *not said here* | word |  | the domination of the unbeliever |  |  | vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent it=Theme from domination=Source |
| 3 | **subdue** | infinitive | One word from my sovereign *not said here* | word |  |  |  | to the law of the Koran | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Patient |
| 4 | **dominate** |  | the unbeliever |  |  |  |  |  | nom domination «act intransitive»: of=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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