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title: A noble Goth named Sacarus was the governor; a man of consummate wis… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: A noble Goth named Sacarus was the governor; a man of consummate wisdom, patriotism, and valour. Who acts: noble Goth. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Muza Besieges the City of Merida., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Muza Besieges the City of Merida., sentence 5

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A noble Goth named Sacarus was the governor; a man of consummate wisdom, patriotism, and valour.

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**Who acts:** noble Goth · **What happens:** name, be · **To what, where:** noble Goth, governor

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This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Muza Besieges the City of Merida.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (noble Goth), 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:pg77685:30:5
# text = A noble Goth named Sacarus was the governor; a man of consummate wisdom, patriotism, and valour.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	noble	noble	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	Goth	goth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
4	named	name	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	_
5	Sacarus	Sacarus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	xcomp	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	governor	governor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	consummate	consummate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	wisdom	wisdom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	patriotism	patriotism	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	valour	valour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **name** | participle |  | a noble Goth *not said here* |  |  |  | Sacarus *xcomp* | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is a** | past | a noble Goth | the governor and valour |  |  |  | a man of consummate wisdom and patriotism *appos*; valour *conj* | tree rules |

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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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