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title: “Count Julian was a noble Gothic knight; but thou appearest in mongr… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: “Count Julian was a noble Gothic knight; but thou appearest in mongrel Moorish garb. Who acts: you, Julian, thou. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Meeting Between the Patriot Pelistes and the Traitor Julian., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every 
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Meeting Between the Patriot Pelistes and the Traitor Julian., sentence 33

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“Count Julian was a noble Gothic knight; but thou appearest in mongrel Moorish garb.

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**Who acts:** you, Julian, thou · **What happens:** count, be, appear · **To what, where:** noble Gothic knight, mongrel Moorish garb · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Meeting Between the Patriot Pelistes and the Traitor Julian.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, Julian, thou), 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:pg77685:26:33
# text = “Count Julian was a noble Gothic knight; but thou appearest in mongrel Moorish garb.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Count	count	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	Julian	Julian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	noble	noble	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
7	Gothic	gothic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	knight	knight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
10	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	12	nsubj	_	_
12	appearest	appear	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	mongrel	mongrel	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
15	Moorish	moorish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	garb	garb	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **count** *in a quote* | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn matter-91 «NP V»: agent=Stimulus |
| 2 | **is a** *in a quote* | past | Julian | a noble Gothic knight |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **appear** *in a quote* | present | thou |  |  | mongrel Moorish garb |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in garb=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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