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title: Gathering together all those who chose to accompany him into exile,… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: Gathering together all those who chose to accompany him into exile, he embarked, to seek some country where he might live in peace, and in the free exercise of his religion. Who acts: Sacarus. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Muza Besieges the City of Merida., w
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Muza Besieges the City of Merida., sentence 77

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Gathering together all those who chose to accompany him into exile, he embarked, to seek some country where he might live in peace, and in the free exercise of his religion.

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**Who acts:** Sacarus · **What happens:** gather, choose, accompany, embark, seek, live · **To what, where:** those, Sacarus, exile, country, peace, religion

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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 (Sacarus), 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:pg77685:30:77
# text = Gathering together all those who chose to accompany him into exile, he embarked, to seek some country where he might live in peace, and in the free exercise of his religion.
1	Gathering	gather	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	advcl	_	_
2	together	together	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
3	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	4	det:predet	_	_
4	those	that	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	1	obj	_	_
5	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj	_	_
6	chose	choose	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	acl:relcl	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	accompany	accompany	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	_
9	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	_
10	into	into	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	exile	exile	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
14	embarked	embark	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	seek	seek	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	ccomp	_	_
18	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	19	det	_	_
19	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	23	advmod	_	_
21	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
22	might	might	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	23	aux	_	_
23	live	live	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	acl:relcl	_	_
24	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	peace	peace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
28	in	in	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	free	free	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	exercise	exercise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	34	nmod:poss	_	_
34	religion	religion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **gather** | gerund | Sacarus *not said here* | those |  |  |  | together *property* | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Theme |
| 2 | **choose** | past |  |  |  |  |  | who *nsubj* | tree rules |
| 3 | **accompany** | to-infinitive |  | Sacarus |  | exile |  |  | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme into exile=Destination |
| 4 | **embark** | past | Sacarus |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **seek** | to-infinitive | Sacarus *not said here* | some country |  |  |  | the free exercise of Sacarus's religion *conj* | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent country=Theme |
| 6 | **live** | might | Sacarus |  |  | peace |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in peace=Location |
| 7 | **exercise** |  |  | Sacarus's religion |  |  |  |  | nom exercise «act 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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