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title: The Moslems then returned, and plundered the Christian camp, where t… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: The Moslems then returned, and plundered the Christian camp, where they found abundant spoil. Who acts: Moslems. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Battle of Calpe.—fate of Ataulpho., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Battle of Calpe.—fate of Ataulpho., sentence 65

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The Moslems then returned, and plundered the Christian camp, where they found abundant spoil.

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**Who acts:** Moslems · **What happens:** return, plunder, find · **To what, where:** Christian camp, abundant spoil

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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 (Moslems), 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:pg77685:13:65
# text = The Moslems then returned, and plundered the Christian camp, where they found abundant spoil.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Moslems	Moslem	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
3	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
4	returned	return	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	plundered	plunder	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	Christian	Christian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	camp	camp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	14	advmod	_	_
13	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	acl:relcl	_	_
15	abundant	abundant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	spoil	spoil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **return** | past | the Moslems |  |  |  | then |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **plunder** | past | the Moslems *not said here* | the Christian camp |  |  |  |  | vn deprive-10.6.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent camp=Source |
| 3 | **find** | past | Moslems *= moslem* | abundant spoil |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spoil=Topic |

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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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