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title: While Taric was thus sweeping the country to the north-east, Muza de… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: While Taric was thus sweeping the country to the north-east, Muza departed in an opposite direction; yet purposing to meet him, and to join their forces in the north. Who acts: Taric, Muza. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Chapter XII., with its dependency tree 
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter XII., sentence 13

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While Taric was thus sweeping the country to the north-east, Muza departed in an opposite direction; yet purposing to meet him, and to join their forces in the north.

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**Who acts:** Taric, Muza · **What happens:** sweep, depart, purpose, meet, join · **To what, where:** country, north east, opposite direction, Taric, forces, north

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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 (Taric, Muza), 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:pg77685:33:13
# text = While Taric was thus sweeping the country to the north-east, Muza departed in an opposite direction; yet purposing to meet him, and to join their forces in the north.
1	While	while	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
2	Taric	Taric	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	sweeping	sweep	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	advcl	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
10	north	north	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	east	east	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
14	Muza	Muza	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	departed	depart	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	opposite	opposite	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	direction	direction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	yet	yet	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	purposing	purpose	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	advcl	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	meet	meet	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	xcomp	_	_
25	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
28	to	to	PART	TO	_	29	mark	_	_
29	join	join	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	conj	_	_
30	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	31	nmod:poss	_	_
31	forces	force	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obj	_	_
32	in	in	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	north	north	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sweep** | past · progressive | Taric | the country |  | the north east |  | thus *property* | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent country=Theme to east=Trajectory |
| 2 | **depart** | past | Muza |  |  | a opposite direction |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **purpose** *speech: other* | gerund | Muza *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 4 | **meet** | to-infinitive | Muza *not said here* | Taric |  |  |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent |
| 5 | **join** | to-infinitive | Muza *not said here* | recesses's forces |  | the north |  |  | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent force=Patient |

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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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