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title: Then Theodomir took a flag of truce in his hand, and put a herald’s… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: Then Theodomir took a flag of truce in his hand, and put a herald’s tabard on the page, and they two sallied forth to capitulate, and were graciously received by Abdalasis. Who acts: Theodomir, hands, Abdalasis. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Expedition of Abd
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Expedition of Abdalasis Against Seville and the “land of Tadmir.”, sentence 77

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Then Theodomir took a flag of truce in his hand, and put a herald’s tabard on the page, and they two sallied forth to capitulate, and were graciously received by Abdalasis.

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**Who acts:** Theodomir, hands, Abdalasis · **What happens:** take, put, sally, capitulate, receive · **To what, where:** flag, hand, tabard, page

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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 (Theodomir, hands, Abdalasis), 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:pg77685:31:77
# text = Then Theodomir took a flag of truce in his hand, and put a herald’s tabard on the page, and they two sallied forth to capitulate, and were graciously received by Abdalasis.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	Theodomir	Theodomir	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	flag	flag	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	truce	truce	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	herald	herald	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	’s	's	PART	POS	_	15	case	_	_
17	tabard	tabard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
18	on	on	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	page	page	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
23	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
24	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	23	appos	_	_
25	sallied	sally	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
26	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
27	to	to	PART	TO	_	28	mark	_	_
28	capitulate	capitulate	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
31	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	aux:pass	_	_
32	graciously	graciously	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
33	received	receive	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	parataxis	_	_
34	by	by	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	Abdalasis	Abdalasis	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | past | Theodomir | a flag of truce |  | Theodomir's hand | then |  | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent flag=Value in hand=Location |
| 2 | **put** | infinitive | Theodomir *not said here* | a herald's tabard |  | the page |  |  | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent tabard=Theme on page=Destination |
| 3 | **sally** | past | hands *= hand* |  |  |  |  | forth *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **capitulate** | to-infinitive | hands *= hand* *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **receive** | past · passive | Abdalasis |  |  |  |  | graciously *property* | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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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