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title: When Taric was thus in possession of the city, the Jews came to him… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: When Taric was thus in possession of the city, the Jews came to him in procession, with songs and dances, and the sound of timbrel and psaltry, hailing him as their lord, and reminding him of his promises. Who acts: Taric, Jews. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, 
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter VI., sentence 38

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When Taric was thus in possession of the city, the Jews came to him in procession, with songs and dances, and the sound of timbrel and psaltry, hailing him as their lord, and reminding him of his promises.

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**Who acts:** Taric, Jews · **What happens:** be, come, hail, remind, possess, promise · **To what, where:** sound, Taric, possession, city

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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, Jews), 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:pg77685:27:38
# text = When Taric was thus in possession of the city, the Jews came to him in procession, with songs and dances, and the sound of timbrel and psaltry, hailing him as their lord, and reminding him of his promises.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
2	Taric	Taric	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	possession	possession	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	Jews	Jew	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
13	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obl	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	procession	procession	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	with	with	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	songs	song	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	dances	dance	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	sound	sound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	timbrel	timbrel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	psaltry	psaltry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
32	hailing	hail	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	advcl	_	_
33	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	obj	_	_
34	as	as	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	36	nmod:poss	_	_
36	lord	lord	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
38	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
39	reminding	remind	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	32	advcl	_	_
40	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	39	obj	_	_
41	of	of	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
42	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	43	nmod:poss	_	_
43	promises	promise	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	39	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Taric |  |  |  |  | thus *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **come** | past | the Jews | the sound of timbrel and psaltry | Taric | possession of the city |  | in procession; with songs and dances | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to he=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **hail** | gerund | the Jews *not said here* | Taric |  |  |  | as JEWS's lord | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent he=Theme as lord=Attribute |
| 4 | **remind** *speech: other* | gerund | the Jews *not said here* |  | Taric |  |  | of Taric's promises | vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient PP.topic»: agent=Agent he=Recipient of promise=Topic |
| 5 | **possess** |  |  | the city |  |  |  |  | nom possession «act transitive»: of=patient |
| 6 | **promise** |  | Taric |  |  |  |  |  | nom promise «communication transitive»: poss=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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