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title: The inhabitants of the surrounding country had fled to these natural… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: The inhabitants of the surrounding country had fled to these natural fastnesses for refuge, and driven thither their flocks and herds. 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 
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Capture of Granada.—subjugation of the Alpuxarra Mountains., sentence 22

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The inhabitants of the surrounding country had fled to these natural fastnesses for refuge, and driven thither their flocks and herds.

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**What happens:** flee, drive · **To what, where:** inhabitants, flocks

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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: 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:pg77685:23:22
# text = The inhabitants of the surrounding country had fled to these natural fastnesses for refuge, and driven thither their flocks and herds.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	inhabitants	inhabitant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	surrounding	surrounding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
7	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux	_	_
8	fled	flee	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	12	det	_	_
11	natural	natural	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	fastnesses	fastness	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
13	for	for	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	refuge	refuge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	driven	drive	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	conj	_	_
18	thither	thither	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
19	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	flocks	flock	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	herds	herd	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **flee** | past · perfect · passive |  | the inhabitants of the surrounding country |  |  |  | to this natural fastnesses for refuge | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **drive** | participle |  | inhabitants's flocks and herds |  |  |  | thither *property* | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme flock=Trajectory |

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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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