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title: The letter overtook the veteran Taric while in the full glow of triu… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: The letter overtook the veteran Taric while in the full glow of triumphant success; having overrun some of the richest part of Andalusia, and just received the surrender of the city of Ecija. Who acts: letter, triumphant success. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving,
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter I., sentence 29

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The letter overtook the veteran Taric while in the full glow of triumphant success; having overrun some of the richest part of Andalusia, and just received the surrender of the city of Ecija.

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**Who acts:** letter, triumphant success · **What happens:** overtake, have overrun, receive, glow, surrender · **To what, where:** veteran, some, surrender, city

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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 (letter, triumphant success), 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:pg77685:22:29
# text = The letter overtook the veteran Taric while in the full glow of triumphant success; having overrun some of the richest part of Andalusia, and just received the surrender of the city of Ecija.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	letter	letter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	overtook	overtake	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	veteran	veteran	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	Taric	Taric	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	_
7	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	glow	glow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	advcl	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	triumphant	triumphant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	success	success	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
16	having	have	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
17	overrun	overrun	ADP	RP	_	16	compound:prt	_	_
18	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	16	obj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	richest	rich	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	22	amod	_	_
22	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	Andalusia	Andalusia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
27	just	just	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	received	receive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	surrender	surrender	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obj	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	Ecija	Ecija	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **overtake** | past | the letter | the veteran |  |  |  | the full glow of triumphant success *advcl* | tree rules |
| 2 | **have overrun** | gerund | the letter *not said here* | some of the richest part of Andalusia |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent some=Patient |
| 3 | **receive** | past |  | the surrender of the city of Ecija |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent surrender=Theme |
| 4 | **glow** |  | triumphant success |  |  |  |  |  | nom glow «state intransitive»: of=agent |
| 5 | **surrender** |  |  | the city of Ecija |  |  |  |  | nom surrender «feeling 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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