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title: The gates were soon burst open; the Moslems rushed in, panting for r… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: The gates were soon burst open; the Moslems rushed in, panting for revenge. Who acts: Moslems. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Expedition of Abdalasis Against Seville and the “land of Tadmir.”, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Expedition of Abdalasis Against Seville and the “land of Tadmir.”, sentence 28

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The gates were soon burst open; the Moslems rushed in, panting for revenge.

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**Who acts:** Moslems · **What happens:** burst, rush in, pant · **To what, where:** gates

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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 (Moslems), 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:pg77685:31:28
# text = The gates were soon burst open; the Moslems rushed in, panting for revenge.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	gates	gate	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
4	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	5	advmod	_	_
5	burst	burst	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	open	open	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	Moslems	Moslem	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj	_	_
10	rushed	rush	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
11	in	in	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	panting	pant	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	_
14	for	for	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	revenge	revenge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **burst** | past · passive |  | the gates |  |  |  | open, soon *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **rush in** | past | the Moslems |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **pant** | gerund | the Moslems *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for revenge | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient S\_INF»: agent=Agent for revenge=Recipient |

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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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