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title: On receiving the orders of Roderick, every town and hamlet, every mo… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: On receiving the orders of Roderick, every town and hamlet, every mountain and valley, had sent forth its fighting men, and the whole country was on the march towards Andalusia. Who acts: whole country. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Terror of the Country.—rod
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Terror of the Country.—roderick Rouses Himself to Arms., sentence 26

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On receiving the orders of Roderick, every town and hamlet, every mountain and valley, had sent forth its fighting men, and the whole country was on the march towards Andalusia.

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**Who acts:** whole country · **What happens:** receive, send, be, order · **To what, where:** orders, fighting men, march, Roderick

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This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Terror of the Country.—roderick Rouses Himself to Arms.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (whole country), 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:pg77685:14:26
# text = On receiving the orders of Roderick, every town and hamlet, every mountain and valley, had sent forth its fighting men, and the whole country was on the march towards Andalusia.
1	On	on	SCONJ	IN	_	2	mark	_	_
2	receiving	receive	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	19	advcl	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	orders	order	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Roderick	Roderick	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	9	det	_	_
9	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	hamlet	hamlet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	14	det	_	_
14	mountain	mountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	valley	valley	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
18	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	sent	send	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
20	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
21	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
22	fighting	fighting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	_
23	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nsubj	_	_
29	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	cop	_	_
30	on	on	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	march	march	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
33	towards	towards	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	Andalusia	Andalusia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **receive** | gerund |  | the orders of Roderick |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent order=Theme |
| 2 | **send** | past · perfect |  | valley's fighting men |  |  |  | forth *property* | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | past | the whole country |  |  | the march |  | towards Andalusia | tree rules |
| 4 | **order** |  |  | Roderick |  |  |  |  | nom order «communication 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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