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description: This marvellous relic was carefully preserved by Taric, as the most precious of all his spoils, being intended by him as a present to the caliph; and in commemoration of it, the city was called by the Arabs, Medina Almeyda; that is to say, “The City of the Table.” Who acts: Taric, that. A sentence o
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter VI., sentence 43

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This marvellous relic was carefully preserved by Taric, as the most precious of all his spoils, being intended by him as a present to the caliph; and in commemoration of it, the city was called by the Arabs, Medina Almeyda; that is to say, “The City of the Table.”

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**Who acts:** Taric, that · **What happens:** preserve, spoil, intend, call, be, commemorate · **To what, where:** marvellous relic, city, commemoration, relic · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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, that), 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:pg77685:27:43
# text = This marvellous relic was carefully preserved by Taric, as the most precious of all his spoils, being intended by him as a present to the caliph; and in commemoration of it, the city was called by the Arabs, Medina Almeyda; that is to say, “The City of the Table.”
1	This	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
2	marvellous	marvellous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	relic	relic	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
5	carefully	carefully	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	preserved	preserve	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	by	by	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Taric	Taric	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	13	advmod	_	_
13	precious	precious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	_
14	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
15	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	17	det:predet	_	_
16	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	spoils	spoil	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	being	be	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	20	aux:pass	_	_
20	intended	intend	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	conj	_	_
21	by	by	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obl	_	_
23	as	as	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	present	present	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
26	to	to	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	caliph	caliph	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
31	in	in	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	commemoration	commemoration	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obl	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	32	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	nsubj:pass	_	_
38	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	39	aux:pass	_	_
39	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	conj	_	_
40	by	by	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	Arabs	Arab	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	39	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	44	punct	_	_
44	Medina	Medina	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	42	conj	_	_
45	Almeyda	Almeyda	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	44	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	50	punct	_	_
47	that	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	50	nsubj:outer	_	_
48	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	50	cop	_	_
49	to	to	PART	TO	_	50	mark	_	_
50	say	say	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
51	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	54	punct	_	_
52	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	54	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	54	det	_	_
54	City	City	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	50	obj	_	_
55	of	of	ADP	IN	_	57	case	_	_
56	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	57	det	_	_
57	Table	Table	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	54	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	50	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
59	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	50	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **preserve** | past · passive | Taric | this marvellous relic |  |  |  | carefully *property* | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Beneficiary |
| 2 | **spoil** | present | Taric *not said here* |  |  |  |  | Taric *nmod:poss* | vn entity\_specific\_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **intend** | gerund · passive | Taric |  |  |  |  | as a present to the caliph | vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent as present=Attribute |
| 4 | **call** | past · passive |  | the city |  | commemoration of relic |  | the Arabs and Medina *xcomp* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |
| 5 | **is** | present | that |  |  |  |  | the City of the Table *obj*; say *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **commemorate** |  |  | relic |  |  |  |  | nom commemoration «event transitive»: of=patient |

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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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