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title: Abdalasis immediately seized on the opportunity, and threw himself b… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Expedition of Abdalasis Against Seville and the “land of Tadmir.”, sentence 46

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Abdalasis immediately seized on the opportunity, and threw himself between the Goths and their mountain fastnesses.

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**What happens:** seize, throw · **To what, where:** Abdalasis, opportunity

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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: 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:pg77685:31:46
# text = Abdalasis immediately seized on the opportunity, and threw himself between the Goths and their mountain fastnesses.
1	Abdalasis	Abdalasis	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	immediately	immediately	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	seized	seize	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	opportunity	opportunity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	threw	throw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
10	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	9	obj	_	_
11	between	between	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	Goths	Goth	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
15	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
16	mountain	mountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	compound	_	_
17	fastnesses	fastness	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **seize** | participle · passive |  | Abdalasis |  | the opportunity |  | immediately *property* | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **throw** | past |  | Abdalasis |  |  |  | between the Goths and Goths's mountain fastnesses | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent himself=Theme between goth=Destination |

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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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