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title: While the veteran Taric was making this wide circuit through the lan… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: While the veteran Taric was making this wide circuit through the land, the expedition under Magued the renegado proceeded against the city of Cordova. Who acts: veteran, expedition. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Expedition of Magued Against Cordova.—defence o
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Expedition of Magued Against Cordova.—defence of the Patriot Pelistes., sentence 1

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While the veteran Taric was making this wide circuit through the land, the expedition under Magued the renegado proceeded against the city of Cordova.

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**Who acts:** veteran, expedition · **What happens:** make, proceed · **To what, where:** wide circuit, land

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This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Expedition of Magued Against Cordova.—defence of the Patriot Pelistes.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (veteran, expedition), 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:pg77685:24:1
# text = While the veteran Taric was making this wide circuit through the land, the expedition under Magued the renegado proceeded against the city of Cordova.
1	While	while	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	veteran	veteran	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	Taric	Taric	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	making	make	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	20	advcl	_	_
7	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	9	det	_	_
8	wide	wide	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	circuit	circuit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
10	through	through	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	expedition	expedition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
16	under	under	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	Magued	Magued	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	renegado	renegado	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
20	proceeded	proceed	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
21	against	against	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	Cordova	Cordova	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	20	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past · progressive | the veteran | this wide circuit |  | the land |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset circuit=Product |
| 2 | **proceed** | past | the expedition under Magued |  |  |  |  | against the city of Cordova; the renegado *nsubj* | vn begin-55.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent |

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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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