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title: One evening, as Taric was seated in his tent meditating on the mode… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: One evening, as Taric was seated in his tent meditating on the mode in which he should assail this rock-built city, certain of the patroles of the camp brought a stranger before him. Who acts: tent, Taric, certain. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Chapter VI., w
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter VI., sentence 6

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One evening, as Taric was seated in his tent meditating on the mode in which he should assail this rock-built city, certain of the patroles of the camp brought a stranger before him.

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**Who acts:** tent, Taric, certain · **What happens:** seat, meditate, assail, build, bring · **To what, where:** tent, built city, mode, stranger

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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 (tent, Taric, certain), 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:pg77685:27:6
# text = One evening, as Taric was seated in his tent meditating on the mode in which he should assail this rock-built city, certain of the patroles of the camp brought a stranger before him.
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	evening	evening	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	as	as	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Taric	Taric	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	seated	seat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	tent	tent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
11	meditating	meditate	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	acl	_	_
12	on	on	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	mode	mode	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	19	obl	_	_
17	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
18	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	assail	assail	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	acl:relcl	_	_
20	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	24	det	_	_
21	rock	rock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	built	build	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	24	amod	_	_
24	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
26	certain	certain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	nsubj	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	patroles	patrole	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obl	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	camp	camp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	_
33	brought	bring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	acl:relcl	_	_
34	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	stranger	stranger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obj	_	_
36	before	before	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **seat** | past · passive |  |  |  | Taric's tent | evening | as Taric | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: in tent=Location |
| 2 | **meditate** | gerund | Taric's tent *not said here* |  |  |  |  | on the mode | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent on mode=Topic |
| 3 | **assail** | should | Taric | this built city |  | the mode |  |  | vn attack-60.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent city=Patient |
| 4 | **build** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | rock *compound* | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 5 | **bring** | past | certain of the patroles of the camp | a stranger |  |  | before Taric |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent stranger=Theme before he=Destination |

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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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