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title: That under Taric departed towards the north-east; beating up the cou… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: That under Taric departed towards the north-east; beating up the country towards the source of the Tagus, traversing the chain of Iberian or Arragonian mountains, and pouring down into the plains and valleys watered by the Ebro. Who acts: That. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Was
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter XII., sentence 11

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That under Taric departed towards the north-east; beating up the country towards the source of the Tagus, traversing the chain of Iberian or Arragonian mountains, and pouring down into the plains and valleys watered by the Ebro.

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**Who acts:** That · **What happens:** depart, beat up, traverse, pour down, water · **To what, where:** Taric, country, chain, plains

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This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Chapter XII.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (That), 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:pg77685:33:11
# text = That under Taric departed towards the north-east; beating up the country towards the source of the Tagus, traversing the chain of Iberian or Arragonian mountains, and pouring down into the plains and valleys watered by the Ebro.
1	That	that	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	nsubj	_	_
2	under	under	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	Taric	Taric	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
4	departed	depart	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	towards	towards	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
7	north	north	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	east	east	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	beating	beat	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
12	up	up	ADP	RP	_	11	compound:prt	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
15	towards	towards	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	source	source	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	Tagus	Tagus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	traversing	traverse	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	conj	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	chain	chain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
26	Iberian	iberian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
27	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	Arragonian	arragonian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	conj	_	_
29	mountains	mountain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	pouring	pour	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	22	conj	_	_
33	down	down	ADV	RB	_	32	advmod	_	_
34	into	into	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	plains	plain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	obl	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	38	cc	_	_
38	valleys	valley	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	conj	_	_
39	watered	water	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	36	acl	_	_
40	by	by	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	Ebro	ebro	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **depart** | past | That |  |  | Taric |  | towards the north east | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme towards east=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **beat up** | gerund | That *not said here* | the country |  |  |  | towards the source of the Tagus | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent country=Patient towards source=Recipient |
| 3 | **traverse** | gerund | That *not said here* | the chain of Iberian mountains |  |  |  |  | vn contiguous\_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme chain=Co-Theme |
| 4 | **pour down** | gerund | That *not said here* |  |  | the plains and valleys |  | down *property* | vn substance\_emission-43.4-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into plain=Location |
| 5 | **water** | participle |  | the plains and valleys *not said here* |  |  |  | by the Ebro | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: 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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