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title: The single eye of Taric el Tuerto glowed like a coal of fire at this… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: The single eye of Taric el Tuerto glowed like a coal of fire at this message. Who acts: single eye. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Chapter XI., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter XI., sentence 15

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The single eye of Taric el Tuerto glowed like a coal of fire at this message.

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**Who acts:** single eye · **What happens:** glow · **To what, where:** message

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This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Chapter XI.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (single eye), 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:pg77685:12:15
# text = The single eye of Taric el Tuerto glowed like a coal of fire at this message.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	single	single	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	eye	eye	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	Taric	Taric	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	el	El	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	Tuerto	Tuerto	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	flat	_	_
8	glowed	glow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	like	like	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	coal	coal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
14	at	at	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	16	det	_	_
16	message	message	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **glow** | past | the single eye of Taric el |  |  | this message |  | like a coal of fire | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at message=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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