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title: When Taric had surveyed the field, he caused the spoils of the dead… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: When Taric had surveyed the field, he caused the spoils of the dead and the plunder of the camp to be brought before him. Who acts: Taric. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, The Field of Battle After the Defeat.—the Fate of Roderick., with its dependency tree and 
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, The Field of Battle After the Defeat.—the Fate of Roderick., sentence 7

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When Taric had surveyed the field, he caused the spoils of the dead and the plunder of the camp to be brought before him.

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**Who acts:** Taric · **What happens:** survey, cause, spoil, bring, plunder · **To what, where:** field, plunder, camp

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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), 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:pg77685:19:7
# text = When Taric had surveyed the field, he caused the spoils of the dead and the plunder of the camp to be brought before him.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
2	Taric	Taric	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	surveyed	survey	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	field	field	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	caused	cause	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	spoils	spoil	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	ccomp	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	obl	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	plunder	plunder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj:pass	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	camp	camp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
22	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	23	aux:pass	_	_
23	brought	bring	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	conj	_	_
24	before	before	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **survey** | past · perfect | Taric | the field |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent field=Theme |
| 2 | **cause** | past | Taric |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **spoil** | present | Taric *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of the dead | vn entity\_specific\_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **bring** | to-infinitive · passive |  | the plunder of the camp |  |  | before Taric |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme before he=Destination |
| 5 | **plunder** |  |  | the camp |  |  |  |  | nom plunder «possession 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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