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title: Issuing out of the camp, he sought the banks of the Guadalete, and p… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: Issuing out of the camp, he sought the banks of the Guadalete, and proceeded silently along its stream, which reflected the distant fires of the Christian camp. Who acts: page, stream. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Traitorous Message of Count Julian., with it
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Traitorous Message of Count Julian., sentence 20

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Issuing out of the camp, he sought the banks of the Guadalete, and proceeded silently along its stream, which reflected the distant fires of the Christian camp.

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**Who acts:** page, stream · **What happens:** issue, seek, proceed, reflect, fire · **To what, where:** camp, banks, distant fires, Christian camp

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This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Traitorous Message of Count Julian.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (page, stream), 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:pg77685:17:20
# text = Issuing out of the camp, he sought the banks of the Guadalete, and proceeded silently along its stream, which reflected the distant fires of the Christian camp.
1	Issuing	issue	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
2	out	out	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	camp	camp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	sought	seek	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	banks	bank	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	Guadalete	Guadalete	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	proceeded	proceed	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
17	silently	silently	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
18	along	along	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	stream	stream	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	23	nsubj	_	_
23	reflected	reflect	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	acl:relcl	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	distant	distant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	fires	fire	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obj	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	Christian	Christian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	camp	camp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **issue** | gerund | page *not said here* |  |  | the camp |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme out camp=Location |
| 2 | **seek** | past | page | the banks of the Guadalete |  |  |  |  | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bank=Theme |
| 3 | **proceed** | past | page *not said here* |  |  |  |  | along Guadalete's stream; silently *property* | vn begin-55.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **reflect** | past | Guadalete's stream | the distant fires of the Christian camp |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **fire** |  |  | the Christian camp |  |  |  |  | nom fire «event 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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