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title: When he came in sight of the fair city of Seville, seated like a que… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: When he came in sight of the fair city of Seville, seated like a queen in the midst of its golden plain, with the Guadalquivir flowing beneath its walls, he gazed upon it with the admiration of a lover, and lamented in his soul that he had to visit it as an avenger. Who acts: Oppas, Guadalquivir. A 
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Expedition of Abdalasis Against Seville and the “land of Tadmir.”, sentence 23

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When he came in sight of the fair city of Seville, seated like a queen in the midst of its golden plain, with the Guadalquivir flowing beneath its walls, he gazed upon it with the admiration of a lover, and lamented in his soul that he had to visit it as an avenger.

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**Who acts:** Oppas, Guadalquivir · **What happens:** come, seat, flow, gaze, lament, have · **To what, where:** sight, fair city, walls, soul, Guadalquivir, lover

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This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Expedition of Abdalasis Against Seville and the “land of Tadmir.”. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Oppas, Guadalquivir), 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:pg77685:31:23
# text = When he came in sight of the fair city of Seville, seated like a queen in the midst of its golden plain, with the Guadalquivir flowing beneath its walls, he gazed upon it with the admiration of a lover, and lamented in his soul that he had to visit it as an avenger.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
2	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	advcl	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	sight	sight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	fair	fair	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	Seville	Seville	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	seated	seat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	acl:relcl	_	_
14	like	like	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	queen	queen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	midst	midst	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
22	golden	golden	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	plain	plain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
25	with	with	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	Guadalquivir	Guadalquivir	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
28	flowing	flow	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
29	beneath	beneath	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
31	walls	wall	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
33	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	nsubj	_	_
34	gazed	gaze	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
35	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	34	obl	_	_
37	with	with	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	admiration	admiration	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	_
40	of	of	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
41	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	lover	lover	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	45	punct	_	_
44	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	45	cc	_	_
45	lamented	lament	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	34	conj	_	_
46	in	in	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
47	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	48	nmod:poss	_	_
48	soul	soul	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	obl	_	_
49	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	51	mark	_	_
50	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	51	nsubj	_	_
51	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	45	advcl	_	_
52	to	to	PART	TO	_	53	mark	_	_
53	visit	visit	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	51	xcomp	_	_
54	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	53	obj	_	_
55	as	as	ADP	IN	_	57	case	_	_
56	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	57	det	_	_
57	avenger	avenger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
58	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	34	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | Oppas |  |  | sight of the fair city of Seville |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in sight=Location |
| 2 | **seat** | participle |  | the fair city of Seville *not said here* |  |  |  | like a queen in the midst of midst's golden plain | vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP»: agent=Location |
| 3 | **flow** | gerund | the Guadalquivir |  |  | Guadalquivir's walls |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme beneath wall=Location |
| 4 | **gaze** | past | Oppas |  |  |  |  | upon Guadalquivir; with the admiration of a lover | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent upon it=Theme |
| 5 | **lament** | participle | Oppas *not said here* |  |  | Oppas's soul |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
| 6 | **have** | past | Oppas |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **visit** | to-infinitive | Oppas *not said here* | Guadalquivir |  |  |  | as a avenger | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Co-Agent |
| 8 | **sight** |  |  | the fair city of Seville |  |  |  |  | nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
| 9 | **admire** |  |  | a lover |  |  |  |  | nom admiration «feeling 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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