---
title: After a few days’ march, Don Roderick arrived in sight of the Moslem… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: After a few days’ march, Don Roderick arrived in sight of the Moslem army, encamped on the banks of the Guadalete[23], where that beautiful stream winds through the fertile land of Xeres. Who acts: Don, beautiful stream. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Chapter 
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77685/15/3/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[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 XIV.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77685/15/) / 3

# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter XIV., sentence 3

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
After a few days’ march, Don Roderick arrived in sight of the Moslem army, encamped on the banks of the Guadalete\[23\], where that beautiful stream winds through the fertile land of Xeres.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** Don, beautiful stream · **What happens:** arrive, encamp, wind, sight · **To what, where:** sight, 23, banks, fertile land, Moslem army

<!-- .vabout -->
This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Chapter XIV.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Don, beautiful stream), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

<!-- .note-en -->
**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg77685:15:3
# text = After a few days’ march, Don Roderick arrived in sight of the Moslem army, encamped on the banks of the Guadalete[23], where that beautiful stream winds through the fertile land of Xeres.
1	After	after	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	days	day	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	’	's	PART	POS	_	4	case	_	_
6	march	march	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
8	Don	Don	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
9	Roderick	Roderick	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	flat	_	_
10	arrived	arrive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	sight	sight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	Moslem	Moslem	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	army	army	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	encamped	encamp	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	conj	_	_
19	on	on	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	banks	bank	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obl	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	Guadalete	Guadalete	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	23	23	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
29	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	33	advmod	_	_
30	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	32	det	_	_
31	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	stream	stream	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nsubj	_	_
33	winds	wind	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	conj	_	_
34	through	through	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
36	fertile	fertile	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	_
38	of	of	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	Xeres	Xeres	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	37	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **arrive** | past | Don |  |  | sight of the Moslem army | after a few days's march |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **encamp** | past | Don *not said here* | 23 |  | the banks of the Guadalete |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **wind** | present | that beautiful stream |  |  | the fertile land of Xeres |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme through land=Trajectory |
| 4 | **sight** |  |  | the Moslem army |  |  |  |  | nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77685/15/2/)
- next →: [sentence 4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77685/15/4/)
- ↑ back to [Chapter XIV.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77685/15/)