--- title: After marching some distance through the country, he entered one day… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics description: After marching some distance through the country, he entered one day a vast and beautiful plain, interspersed with villages, adorned with groves and gardens, watered by winding rivers, and surrounded by lofty mountains. Who acts: terror. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (terror), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg77685:23:4 # text = After marching some distance through the country, he entered one day a vast and beautiful plain, interspersed with villages, adorned with groves and gardens, watered by winding rivers, and surrounded by lofty mountains. 1 After after SCONJ IN _ 2 mark _ _ 2 marching march VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 10 advcl _ _ 3 some some DET DT PronType=Ind 4 det _ _ 4 distance distance NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obj _ _ 5 through through ADP IN _ 7 case _ _ 6 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 7 det _ _ 7 country country NOUN NN Number=Sing 2 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 8 , , PUNCT , _ 2 punct _ _ 9 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 10 nsubj _ _ 10 entered enter VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 11 one one NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 12 nummod _ _ 12 day day NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obl:unmarked _ _ 13 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 17 det _ _ 14 vast vast ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 17 amod _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 16 cc _ _ 16 beautiful beautiful ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 14 conj _ _ 17 plain plain NOUN NN Number=Sing 10 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 19 punct _ _ 19 interspersed intersperse VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 17 acl _ _ 20 with with ADP IN _ 21 case _ _ 21 villages village NOUN NNS Number=Plur 19 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 22 , , PUNCT , _ 23 punct _ _ 23 adorned adorn VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 21 acl _ _ 24 with with ADP IN _ 25 case _ _ 25 groves grove NOUN NNS Number=Plur 23 obl:agent _ _ 26 and and CCONJ CC _ 27 cc _ _ 27 gardens garden NOUN NNS Number=Plur 25 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 29 punct _ _ 29 watered water VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 25 acl _ _ 30 by by SCONJ IN _ 31 mark _ _ 31 winding wind VERB VBG Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part 29 advcl _ _ 32 rivers river NOUN NNS Number=Plur 31 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 33 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 34 and and CCONJ CC _ 35 cc _ _ 35 surrounded surround VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 10 advcl _ _ 36 by by ADP IN _ 38 case _ _ 37 lofty lofty ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 38 amod _ _ 38 mountains mountain NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 39 . . PUNCT . _ 10 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **march** | gerund | terror *not said here* | some distance | | the country | | | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent distance=Theme through country=Trajectory | | 2 | **enter** | past | terror | a vast plain | | | day | | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme plain=Destination | | 3 | **intersperse** | participle | | a vast plain *not said here* | | | | with villages | vn amalgamate-22.2-2-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Patient with village=Co-Patient | | 4 | **adorn** | participle | | villages *not said here* | | | | groves and gardens *obl:agent* | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | | 5 | **water** | participle | | groves and gardens *not said here* | | | | | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent | | 6 | **wind** | gerund | | rivers | | | | | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent river=Theme | | 7 | **surround** | participle | terror *not said here* | | | | | by lofty mountains | vn contiguous\_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 3](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77685/23/3/) - next →: [sentence 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77685/23/5/) - ↑ back to [Capture of Granada.—subjugation of the Alpuxarra Mountains.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77685/23/)