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title: The city, therefore, readily capitulated, and was received into vass… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: The city, therefore, readily capitulated, and was received into vassalage on favourable terms. Who acts: city. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Capture of Granada.—subjugation of the Alpuxarra Mountains., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clau
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Capture of Granada.—subjugation of the Alpuxarra Mountains., sentence 12

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The city, therefore, readily capitulated, and was received into vassalage on favourable terms.

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**Who acts:** city · **What happens:** capitulate, receive · **To what, where:** vassalage

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This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Capture of Granada.—subjugation of the Alpuxarra Mountains.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (city), 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:pg77685:23:12
# text = The city, therefore, readily capitulated, and was received into vassalage on favourable terms.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	therefore	therefore	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	readily	readily	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	capitulated	capitulate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux:pass	_	_
11	received	receive	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	conj	_	_
12	into	into	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	vassalage	vassalage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
14	on	on	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	favourable	favourable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	terms	term	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **capitulate** | participle | the city |  |  |  |  | readily, therefore *property* | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **receive** | past · passive | the city *not said here* |  |  | vassalage |  | on favourable terms | vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: on term=Location |

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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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