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title: These pretended merchants were Count Julian and a number of his part… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: These pretended merchants were Count Julian and a number of his partisans. Who acts: pretended merchants. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Muza Ben Nozier.—his Entrance Into Spain, and Capture of Carmona., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cla
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Muza Ben Nozier.—his Entrance Into Spain, and Capture of Carmona., sentence 32

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These pretended merchants were Count Julian and a number of his partisans.

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**Who acts:** pretended merchants · **What happens:** pretend, count · **To what, where:** Julian

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This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Muza Ben Nozier.—his Entrance Into Spain, and Capture of Carmona.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (pretended merchants), 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:pg77685:28:32
# text = These pretended merchants were Count Julian and a number of his partisans.
1	These	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
2	pretended	pretend	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	amod	_	_
3	merchants	merchant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
4	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	Count	count	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
6	Julian	Julian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	partisans	partisan	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pretend** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **count** | past | this pretended merchants | Julian and a number of Julian's partisans |  |  |  |  | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent julian=Theme |

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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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