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title: Taric ben Zeyad arrived at the scene of conflict, and paused, for a… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: Taric ben Zeyad arrived at the scene of conflict, and paused, for a moment, in admiration of the surpassing prowess of the prince: recollecting, however, that his fall would be a death-blow to his army, he spurred upon him, and wounded him severely with his scimitar. Who acts: Taric, fall, Prince. A
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Battle of Calpe.—fate of Ataulpho., sentence 47

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Taric ben Zeyad arrived at the scene of conflict, and paused, for a moment, in admiration of the surpassing prowess of the prince: recollecting, however, that his fall would be a death-blow to his army, he spurred upon him, and wounded him severely with his scimitar.

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**Who acts:** Taric, fall, Prince · **What happens:** arrive, pause, surpass, recollect, be, spur · **To what, where:** scene, admiration, death blow, Prince, surpassing prowess

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This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Battle of Calpe.—fate of Ataulpho.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Taric, fall, Prince), 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:pg77685:13:47
# text = Taric ben Zeyad arrived at the scene of conflict, and paused, for a moment, in admiration of the surpassing prowess of the prince: recollecting, however, that his fall would be a death-blow to his army, he spurred upon him, and wounded him severely with his scimitar.
1	Taric	Taric	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	ben	BenJacoby@ECT	X	GW	_	1	flat:foreign	_	_
3	Zeyad	Zeyad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
4	arrived	arrive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	scene	scene	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	conflict	conflict	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	paused	pause	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	for	for	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	moment	moment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	admiration	admiration	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	surpassing	surpass	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	23	amod	_	_
23	prowess	prowess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	prince	prince	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	28	punct	_	_
28	recollecting	recollect	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
30	however	however	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	40	punct	_	_
32	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	40	mark	_	_
33	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	34	nmod:poss	_	_
34	fall	fall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	nsubj	_	_
35	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	40	aux	_	_
36	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	40	cop	_	_
37	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
38	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	38	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	blow	blow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
41	to	to	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
42	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	43	nmod:poss	_	_
43	army	army	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	46	punct	_	_
45	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	46	nsubj	_	_
46	spurred	spur	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
47	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
48	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	46	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	51	punct	_	_
50	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	51	cc	_	_
51	wounded	wound	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
52	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	51	obj	_	_
53	severely	severely	ADV	RB	_	51	advmod	_	_
54	with	with	ADP	IN	_	56	case	_	_
55	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	56	nmod:poss	_	_
56	scimitar	scimitar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	51	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **arrive** | past | Taric |  |  | the scene of conflict |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **pause** | past | Taric *not said here* |  |  | admiration of the surpassing prowess of the prince | moment |  | vn linger-53.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in admiration=Location |
| 3 | **surpass** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot |
| 4 | **recollect** | gerund | Taric *not said here* |  |  |  |  | however *property* | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **is a** | would | Prince's fall | a death blow |  |  |  | to Prince's army | tree rules |
| 6 | **spur** | past | Prince |  |  |  |  | upon Taric | vn stimulate-59.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **wound** | past | Taric *not said here* | Prince |  |  |  | with Prince's scimitar; severely *property* | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer |
| 8 | **admire** |  |  | the surpassing prowess of the prince |  |  |  |  | nom admiration «feeling transitive»: of=patient |

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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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