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title: Taric has many friends in the army; his actions, too, have been sign… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: Taric has many friends in the army; his actions, too, have been signal and illustrious, and entitle him to the highest honours and rewards, instead of disgrace and imprisonment.” Who acts: Taric, actions. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Muza Arrives At Toledo.—
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Muza Arrives At Toledo.—interview Between Him and Taric., sentence 33

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Taric has many friends in the army; his actions, too, have been signal and illustrious, and entitle him to the highest honours and rewards, instead of disgrace and imprisonment.”

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**Who acts:** Taric, actions · **What happens:** have, be, entitle, act · **To what, where:** many friends, army, Taric

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This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Muza Arrives At Toledo.—interview Between Him and Taric.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Taric, actions), 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:pg77685:32:33
# text = Taric has many friends in the army; his actions, too, have been signal and illustrious, and entitle him to the highest honours and rewards, instead of disgrace and imprisonment.”
1	Taric	Taric	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	has	have	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	friends	friend	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	army	army	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	actions	action	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	too	too	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
14	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
15	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	16	cop	_	_
16	signal	signal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	parataxis	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	illustrious	illustrious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	entitle	entitle	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	16	parataxis	_	_
22	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obj	_	_
23	to	to	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	highest	high	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	26	amod	_	_
26	honours	honour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	rewards	reward	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
30	instead	instead	ADV	RB	ExtPos=ADP	32	case	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	fixed	_	_
32	disgrace	disgrace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	parataxis	_	_
33	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	34	cc	_	_
34	imprisonment	imprisonment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | Taric | many friends |  | the army |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent friend=Patient |
| 2 | **is** | present · perfect | Taric's actions |  |  |  |  | signal *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **be** |  | Taric's actions *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **entitle** | infinitive |  | Taric |  |  |  | to the highest honours and rewards; disgrace and imprisonment *parataxis* | tree rules |
| 5 | **act** |  | Taric |  |  |  |  |  | nom action «act intransitive»: poss=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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