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title: HOW TARIC EL TUERTO CAPTURED THE CITY OF TOLEDO THROUGH THE AID OF T… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: HOW TARIC EL TUERTO CAPTURED THE CITY OF TOLEDO THROUGH THE AID OF THE JEWS, AND HOW HE FOUND THE FAMOUS TALISMANIC TABLE OF SOLOMON. Who acts: TARIC EL, EL. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Chapter VI., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every claus
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter VI., sentence 1

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HOW TARIC EL TUERTO CAPTURED THE CITY OF TOLEDO THROUGH THE AID OF THE JEWS, AND HOW HE FOUND THE FAMOUS TALISMANIC TABLE OF SOLOMON.

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**Who acts:** TARIC EL, EL · **What happens:** capture, find · **To what, where:** CITY, AID, FAMOUS TALISMANIC TABLE

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This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Chapter VI.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (TARIC EL, EL), 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:pg77685:27:1
# text = HOW TARIC EL TUERTO CAPTURED THE CITY OF TOLEDO THROUGH THE AID OF THE JEWS, AND HOW HE FOUND THE FAMOUS TALISMANIC TABLE OF SOLOMON.
1	HOW	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	_
2	TARIC	TARIC	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	EL	EL	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
4	TUERTO	TUERTO	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	flat	_	_
5	CAPTURED	capture	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	THE	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	CITY	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	OF	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	TOLEDO	TOLEDO	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
10	THROUGH	through	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	THE	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	AID	aid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
13	OF	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	THE	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	JEWS	Jew	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
17	AND	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
18	HOW	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	20	advmod	_	_
19	HE	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	FOUND	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
21	THE	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
22	FAMOUS	famous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
23	TALISMANIC	talismanic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	TABLE	table	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
25	OF	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	SOLOMON	solomon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **capture** | past | TARIC EL | the CITY of TOLEDO |  | the AID of the JEWS |  |  | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent city=Theme |
| 2 | **find** | past | EL | the FAMOUS TALISMANIC TABLE of SOLOMON |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent table=Topic |

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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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