--- title: Let us leave for a season the bold Taric in his triumphant progress… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics description: Let us leave for a season the bold Taric in his triumphant progress from city to city, while we turn our eyes to Muza ben Nozier, the renowned emir of Almagreb, and the commander-in-chief of the Moslem forces of the west. Who acts: you, us, we, Taric. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, us, we, Taric), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg77685:28:1 # text = Let us leave for a season the bold Taric in his triumphant progress from city to city, while we turn our eyes to Muza ben Nozier, the renowned emir of Almagreb, and the commander-in-chief of the Moslem forces of the west. 1 Let let VERB VB Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 2 us we PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 1 obj _ _ 3 leave leave VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 1 xcomp _ _ 4 for for ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 6 det _ _ 6 season season NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 7 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 bold bold NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 conj _ _ 9 Taric Taric PROPN NNP Number=Sing 8 appos _ _ 10 in in ADP IN _ 13 case _ _ 11 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 13 nmod:poss _ _ 12 triumphant triumphant ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 13 amod _ _ 13 progress progress NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obl _ _ 14 from from ADP IN _ 15 case _ _ 15 city city NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 nmod _ _ 16 to to ADP IN _ 17 case _ _ 17 city city NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 18 , , PUNCT , _ 21 punct _ _ 19 while while SCONJ IN _ 21 mark _ _ 20 we we PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs 21 nsubj _ _ 21 turn turn VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 1 conj _ _ 22 our our PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 23 nmod:poss _ _ 23 eyes eye NOUN NNS Number=Plur 21 obj _ _ 24 to to ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 Muza Muza PROPN NNP Number=Sing 26 compound _ _ 26 ben ben NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ _ 27 Nozier Nozier PROPN NNP Number=Sing 26 appos _ SpaceAfter=No 28 , , PUNCT , _ 31 punct _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 31 det _ _ 30 renowned renowned ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 31 amod _ _ 31 emir emir NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 appos _ _ 32 of of ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 33 Almagreb Almagreb PROPN NNP Number=Sing 31 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 41 punct _ _ 35 and and CCONJ CC _ 41 cc _ _ 36 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 37 det _ _ 37 commander commander NOUN NN Number=Sing 41 nsubj _ SpaceAfter=No 38 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 41 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 39 in in ADP IN _ 41 case _ SpaceAfter=No 40 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 39 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 41 chief chief NOUN NN Number=Sing 21 obl _ _ 42 of of ADP IN _ 45 case _ _ 43 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 45 det _ _ 44 Moslem Moslem ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 45 amod _ _ 45 forces force NOUN NNS Number=Plur 41 nmod _ _ 46 of of ADP IN _ 48 case _ _ 47 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 48 det _ _ 48 west west NOUN NN Number=Sing 45 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 49 . . PUNCT . _ 1 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **let** | imperative | you *not said here* | us | | | | | tree rules | | 2 | **leave** | infinitive | us *not said here* | | | | season | in Taric's triumphant progress from city to city *result* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in progress=Result | | 3 | **turn** | present | we | our eyes | Muza ben | | | in chief the commander of the Moslem forces of the west | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient PP.theme»: agent=Agent eye=Patient to ben=Recipient in chief=Topic | | 4 | **progress** | | Taric | | | city to city | | | nom progress «act intransitive»: poss=agent from=place | 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. **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. - ← previous: [Chapter VI., 45](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77685/27/45/) - next →: [sentence 2](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77685/28/2/) - ↑ back to [Muza Ben Nozier.—his Entrance Into Spain, and Capture of Carmona.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77685/28/)