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title: While Taric was pushing his triumphant course through Andalusia, tid… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: While Taric was pushing his triumphant course through Andalusia, tidings of his stupendous victory on the banks of the Guadalete were carried to Muza ben Nozier. Who acts: Taric. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Chapter I., with its dependency tree and the pragm
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter I., sentence 18

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While Taric was pushing his triumphant course through Andalusia, tidings of his stupendous victory on the banks of the Guadalete were carried to Muza ben Nozier.

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**Who acts:** Taric · **What happens:** push, carry · **To what, where:** triumphant course, Andalusia, tidings, Muza ben

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This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Chapter I.. 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:pg77685:22:18
# text = While Taric was pushing his triumphant course through Andalusia, tidings of his stupendous victory on the banks of the Guadalete were carried to Muza ben Nozier.
1	While	while	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	Taric	Taric	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	pushing	push	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	23	advcl	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
6	triumphant	triumphant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	course	course	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	through	through	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	Andalusia	Andalusia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
11	tidings	tiding	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nsubj:pass	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
14	stupendous	stupendous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	victory	victory	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
16	on	on	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	banks	bank	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nmod	_	_
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	_	_
22	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux:pass	_	_
23	carried	carry	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
24	to	to	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	Muza	Muza	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	ben	ben	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
27	Nozier	Nozier	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	23	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **push** | past · progressive | Taric | spoil's triumphant course |  | Andalusia |  |  | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent course=Theme through andalusia=Trajectory |
| 2 | **carry** | past · passive |  | tidings of spoil's stupendous victory on the banks of the Guadalete |  | Muza ben |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to ben=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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