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title: At length he arrived on the confines of that beautiful region compri… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: At length he arrived on the confines of that beautiful region comprising lofty and precipitous mountains and rich and delicious plains, afterwards known by the name of the kingdom of Murcia. Who acts: son, beautiful region. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Exped
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Expedition of Abdalasis Against Seville and the “land of Tadmir.”, sentence 35

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At length he arrived on the confines of that beautiful region comprising lofty and precipitous mountains and rich and delicious plains, afterwards known by the name of the kingdom of Murcia.

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**Who acts:** son, beautiful region · **What happens:** arrive, comprise, know, name · **To what, where:** length, lofty mountains, kingdom

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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 (son, beautiful region), 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:pg77685:31:35
# text = At length he arrived on the confines of that beautiful region comprising lofty and precipitous mountains and rich and delicious plains, afterwards known by the name of the kingdom of Murcia.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	length	length	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
3	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	arrived	arrive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	confines	confines	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	11	det	_	_
10	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	region	region	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
12	comprising	comprise	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	11	acl	_	_
13	lofty	lofty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	precipitous	precipitous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	conj	_	_
16	mountains	mountain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
18	rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	delicious	delicious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	conj	_	_
21	plains	plain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	afterwards	afterwards	ADV	RB	_	24	advmod	_	_
24	known	know	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
25	by	by	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	Murcia	Murcia	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **arrive** | past | son |  |  | length |  | on the confines of that beautiful region and rich plains | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **comprise** | gerund | that beautiful region *not said here* | lofty mountains |  |  |  |  | vn comprise-107.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme mountain=Pivot |
| 3 | **know** | participle | son *not said here* |  |  |  |  | by the name of the kingdom of Murcia; afterwards *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **name** |  |  | the kingdom of Murcia |  |  |  |  | nom name «communication 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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