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title: [26] This battle is called indiscriminately by historians the battle… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: [26] This battle is called indiscriminately by historians the battle of Guadalete, or Xeres, from the neighbourhood of that city. Who acts: historians. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, The Cave of Hercules., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every c
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, The Cave of Hercules., sentence 111

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\[26\] This battle is called indiscriminately by historians the battle of Guadalete, or Xeres, from the neighbourhood of that city.

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**Who acts:** historians · **What happens:** call, battle · **To what, where:** battle, neighbourhood, Guadalete · **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: who acts (historians), 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:pg77685:21:112
# text = [26] This battle is called indiscriminately by historians the battle of Guadalete, or Xeres, from the neighbourhood of that city.
1	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	26	26	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	2	punct	_	_
4	This	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	det	_	_
5	battle	battle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
6	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
8	indiscriminately	indiscriminately	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
9	by	by	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	historians	historian	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	battle	battle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	xcomp	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	Guadalete	Guadalete	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	Xeres	Xeres	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
19	from	from	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	neighbourhood	neighbourhood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	24	det	_	_
24	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **call** | present · passive | historians | this battle |  | the neighbourhood of that city |  | 26 *obl*; indiscriminately *property* | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent subject=Theme from neighbourhood=Source |
| 2 | **battle** |  |  | Guadalete or Xeres |  |  |  |  | nom battle «act 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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