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title: The pale crescent of the moon hung over the Moorish camp, and dimly… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: The pale crescent of the moon hung over the Moorish camp, and dimly lighted up the windings of the Guadalete. Who acts: pale crescent. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Last Day of the Battle., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Last Day of the Battle., sentence 4

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The pale crescent of the moon hung over the Moorish camp, and dimly lighted up the windings of the Guadalete.

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**Who acts:** pale crescent · **What happens:** hang, light up · **To what, where:** Moorish camp, windings

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This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Last Day of the Battle.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (pale crescent), 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:pg77685:18:4
# text = The pale crescent of the moon hung over the Moorish camp, and dimly lighted up the windings of the Guadalete.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	pale	pale	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	crescent	crescent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	moon	moon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
7	hung	hang	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	over	over	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	Moorish	moorish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	camp	camp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	dimly	dimly	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	lighted	light	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	conj	_	_
16	up	up	ADP	RP	_	15	compound:prt	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	windings	winding	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	Guadalete	Guadalete	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hang** | past | the pale crescent of the moon |  |  | the Moorish camp |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over camp=Location |
| 2 | **light up** | participle | the pale crescent of the moon *not said here* | the windings of the Guadalete |  |  |  | dimly *property* | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent winding=Product |

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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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