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title: In the time of the Moors this art, we are told, was publicly taught… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: In the time of the Moors this art, we are told, was publicly taught at their universities, the same as astronomy, philosophy, and mathematics, and at no place was it cultivated with more success than at Toledo. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, The Cave of Hercul
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, The Cave of Hercules., sentence 11

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In the time of the Moors this art, we are told, was publicly taught at their universities, the same as astronomy, philosophy, and mathematics, and at no place was it cultivated with more success than at Toledo.

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**What happens:** tell, teach, cultivate · **To what, where:** we, universities, art, place · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, The Cave of Hercules.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg77685:21:11
# text = In the time of the Moors this art, we are told, was publicly taught at their universities, the same as astronomy, philosophy, and mathematics, and at no place was it cultivated with more success than at Toledo.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	Moors	Moor	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
7	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	8	det	_	_
8	art	art	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
10	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
11	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux:pass	_	_
12	told	tell	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
14	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux:pass	_	_
15	publicly	publicly	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	taught	teach	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
17	at	at	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	universities	university	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
23	as	as	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	astronomy	astronomy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
26	philosophy	philosophy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	mathematics	mathematics	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
32	at	at	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	34	det	_	_
34	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obl	_	_
35	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	37	aux:pass	_	_
36	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	nsubj:pass	_	_
37	cultivated	cultivate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	conj	_	_
38	with	with	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	40	amod	_	_
40	success	success	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	obl	_	_
41	than	than	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
42	at	at	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
43	Toledo	Toledo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	40	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | present · passive |  | we |  |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |
| 2 | **teach** *speech: other* | past · passive |  |  |  | caves's universities | time | publicly *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V» |
| 3 | **cultivate** | past · passive |  | art |  | no place |  | with more success than Toledo | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Product with success=Material |

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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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