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title: Taric ben Zeyad considered his victory incomplete so long as the Got… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: Taric ben Zeyad considered his victory incomplete so long as the Gothic monarch survived; he proclaimed great rewards, therefore, to whomsoever should bring Roderick to him, dead or alive. Who acts: Taric, Gothic monarch, monarch, whomsoever. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washi
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, The Field of Battle After the Defeat.—the Fate of Roderick., sentence 15

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Taric ben Zeyad considered his victory incomplete so long as the Gothic monarch survived; he proclaimed great rewards, therefore, to whomsoever should bring Roderick to him, dead or alive.

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**Who acts:** Taric, Gothic monarch, monarch, whomsoever · **What happens:** consider, survive, proclaim, bring · **To what, where:** victory, great rewards, Roderick, Taric

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This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, The Field of Battle After the Defeat.—the Fate of Roderick.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Taric, Gothic monarch, monarch, whomsoever), 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:pg77685:19:15
# text = Taric ben Zeyad considered his victory incomplete so long as the Gothic monarch survived; he proclaimed great rewards, therefore, to whomsoever should bring Roderick to him, dead or alive.
1	Taric	Taric	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	ben	BenJacoby@ECT	X	GW	_	1	flat:foreign	_	_
3	Zeyad	Zeyad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
4	considered	consider	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	victory	victory	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
7	incomplete	incomplete	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
8	so	so	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	4	advmod	_	_
10	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	Gothic	gothic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	monarch	monarch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	survived	survive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj	_	_
17	proclaimed	proclaim	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
18	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	rewards	reward	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	therefore	therefore	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
23	to	to	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
24	whomsoever	whomsoever	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
25	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	bring	bring	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	conj	_	_
27	Roderick	Roderick	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
28	to	to	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
31	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	parataxis	_	_
32	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
33	alive	alive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **consider** | past | Taric | Taric's victory |  |  |  | incomplete, long *property* | vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent victory=Attribute |
| 2 | **survive** | past | the Gothic monarch |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **proclaim** | past | monarch | great rewards |  |  |  | therefore *property* | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reward=Theme |
| 4 | **bring** | should | whomsoever | Roderick | Taric |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent roderick=Theme to he=Destination |

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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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