--- title: In the meantime, Taric el Tuerto had received large re-enforcements… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics description: In the meantime, Taric el Tuerto had received large re-enforcements from Africa, and the adherents of Count Julian, and all those discontented with the sway of Don Roderick, had flocked to his standard; for many were deceived by the representations of Count Julian, and thought that the Arabs had com --- [Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77685/12/8/) [home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Legends of the conquest of Spain](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77685/) / [Chapter XI.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77685/12/) / 8 # Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter XI., sentence 8 In the meantime, Taric el Tuerto had received large re-enforcements from Africa, and the adherents of Count Julian, and all those discontented with the sway of Don Roderick, had flocked to his standard; for many were deceived by the representations of Count Julian, and thought that the Arabs had come to aid him in placing the sons of Witiza upon the throne. **Who acts:** representations, Arabs · **What happens:** receive, discontent, flock, deceive, think, come · **To what, where:** Taric, meantime, those, many, sons, throne · **Speech:** someone speaks here 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 (representations, Arabs), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg77685:12:8 # text = In the meantime, Taric el Tuerto had received large re-enforcements from Africa, and the adherents of Count Julian, and all those discontented with the sway of Don Roderick, had flocked to his standard; for many were deceived by the representations of Count Julian, and thought that the Arabs had come to aid him in placing the sons of Witiza upon the throne. 1 In in ADP IN _ 3 case _ _ 2 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 3 det _ _ 3 meantime meantime NOUN NN Number=Sing 9 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 4 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ _ 5 Taric Taric PROPN NNP Number=Sing 9 nsubj:pass _ _ 6 el El PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 flat _ _ 7 Tuerto Tuerto PROPN NNP Number=Sing 5 flat _ _ 8 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 aux _ _ 9 received receive VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 10 large large ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 11 re-enforcements re-enforcement NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obj _ _ 12 from from ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 13 Africa Africa PROPN NNP Number=Sing 11 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 17 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 17 cc _ _ 16 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 17 adherents adherent NOUN NNS Number=Plur 9 obl _ _ 18 of of ADP IN _ 20 case _ _ 19 Count Count PROPN NNP Number=Sing 20 compound _ _ 20 Julian Julian PROPN NNP Number=Sing 17 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 21 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 22 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 23 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 24 det:predet _ _ 24 those that PRON DT Number=Plur|PronType=Dem 34 nsubj:pass _ _ 25 discontented discontent VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 24 acl _ _ 26 with with ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 27 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 28 det _ _ 28 sway sway NOUN NN Number=Sing 25 obl _ _ 29 of of ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 30 Don Don PROPN NNP Number=Sing 28 nmod _ _ 31 Roderick Roderick PROPN NNP Number=Sing 30 flat _ SpaceAfter=No 32 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 33 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 34 aux _ _ 34 flocked flock VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 9 conj _ _ 35 to to ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 36 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 37 nmod:poss _ _ 37 standard standard NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 38 ; ; PUNCT , _ 42 punct _ _ 39 for for ADP IN _ 40 case _ _ 40 many many ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 42 nsubj:pass _ _ 41 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 42 aux:pass _ _ 42 deceived deceive VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 34 conj _ _ 43 by by ADP IN _ 45 case _ _ 44 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 45 det _ _ 45 representations representation NOUN NNS Number=Plur 42 obl _ _ 46 of of ADP IN _ 48 case _ _ 47 Count Count PROPN NNP Number=Sing 48 compound _ _ 48 Julian Julian PROPN NNP Number=Sing 45 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 49 , , PUNCT , _ 51 punct _ _ 50 and and CCONJ CC _ 51 cc _ _ 51 thought think VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 9 parataxis _ _ 52 that that SCONJ IN _ 56 mark _ _ 53 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 54 det _ _ 54 Arabs Arab PROPN NNPS Number=Plur 56 nsubj _ _ 55 had have AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 56 aux _ _ 56 come come VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part 51 ccomp _ _ 57 to to PART TO _ 58 mark _ _ 58 aid aid VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 56 xcomp _ _ 59 him he PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 58 obj _ _ 60 in in SCONJ IN _ 61 mark _ _ 61 placing place VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 58 advcl _ _ 62 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 63 det _ _ 63 sons son NOUN NNS Number=Plur 61 obj _ _ 64 of of ADP IN _ 65 case _ _ 65 Witiza Witiza PROPN NNP Number=Sing 63 nmod _ _ 66 upon upon ADP IN _ 68 case _ _ 67 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 68 det _ _ 68 throne throne NOUN NN Number=Sing 61 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 69 . . PUNCT . _ 9 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **receive** | past · perfect · passive | | Taric | | the meantime | | the adherents of Count Julian *obl*; large re-enforcements *obj* | vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP ADV»: subject=Theme re-enforcement=Location | | 2 | **discontent** | participle | | | | | | with the sway of Don | tree rules | | 3 | **flock** | past · perfect · passive | | those | | | | to DON's standard | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V NP.theme»: subject=Theme | | 4 | **deceive** | past · passive | the representations of Count Julian | many | | | | | vn trick-59.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient | | 5 | **think** *speech: other* | past | | | | | | | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | | 6 | **come** | past · perfect | the Arabs | | | | | | tree rules | | 7 | **aid** | to-infinitive | the Arabs *not said here* | | TARIC | | | | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Beneficiary | | 8 | **place** | gerund | the Arabs *not said here* | the sons of Witiza | | the throne | | | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent son=Theme upon throne=Destination | | 9 | **represent** | | | Count Julian | | | | | nom representation «cognition transitive»: of=patient | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77685/12/7/) - next →: [sentence 9](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77685/12/9/) - ↑ back to [Chapter XI.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77685/12/)