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description: When I return to Egypt, and present myself before the caliph, he will ask me of my services in Spain; what battle I have gained; what town or castle I have taken. Who acts: I, pause, my. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Expedition of Abdalasis Against Seville an
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Expedition of Abdalasis Against Seville and the “land of Tadmir.”, sentence 6

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When I return to Egypt, and present myself before the caliph, he will ask me of my services in Spain; what battle I have gained; what town or castle I have taken.

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**Who acts:** I, pause, my · **What happens:** return, present, ask, battle, gain, town · **To what, where:** Egypt, myself, me, town, Spain

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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 (I, pause, my), 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:pg77685:31:6
# text = When I return to Egypt, and present myself before the caliph, he will ask me of my services in Spain; what battle I have gained; what town or castle I have taken.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	return	return	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	advcl	_	_
4	to	to	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Egypt	Egypt	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	present	present	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
9	myself	myself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	8	obj	_	_
10	before	before	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	caliph	caliph	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
14	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
15	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
16	ask	ask	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
17	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	iobj	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	services	service	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	Spain	Spain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	25	nsubj	_	_
25	battle	battle	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
26	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
27	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	28	aux	_	_
28	gained	gain	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	25	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
30	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	31	nsubj	_	_
31	town	town	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	parataxis	_	_
32	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
33	castle	castle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	conj	_	_
34	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	36	nsubj	_	_
35	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	36	aux	_	_
36	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	31	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **return** | present | I |  | Egypt |  |  |  | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Patient to egypt=Result |
| 2 | **present** | infinitive | I *not said here* | myself |  |  | before the caliph |  | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent myself=Theme |
| 3 | **ask** *speech: ask* | future | pause |  | me |  |  | of my services in Spain | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient |
| 4 | **battle** | present |  |  |  |  |  | what *nsubj* | tree rules |
| 5 | **gain** | present · perfect | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 6 | **town** |  |  |  |  |  |  | what *nsubj*; castle *conj* | tree rules |
| 7 | **take** | present · perfect | I | town or castle *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent town=Theme |
| 8 | **service** |  | my |  |  | Spain |  |  | nom service «act transitive»: poss=agent in=place |

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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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