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title: In this place had taken refuge many of the most valiant of the Gothi… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: In this place had taken refuge many of the most valiant of the Gothic warriors; the remnants of armies, and fugitives from conquered cities. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Chapter XII., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter XII., sentence 16

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In this place had taken refuge many of the most valiant of the Gothic warriors; the remnants of armies, and fugitives from conquered cities.

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**What happens:** take, conquer · **To what, where:** refuge, place

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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: 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:pg77685:33:16
# text = In this place had taken refuge many of the most valiant of the Gothic warriors; the remnants of armies, and fugitives from conquered cities.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
3	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
4	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
6	refuge	refuge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
7	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	11	advmod	_	_
11	valiant	valiant	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	Gothic	gothic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	warriors	warrior	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	remnants	remnant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	parataxis	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	armies	army	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	fugitives	fugitive	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	conj	_	_
24	from	from	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	conquered	conquer	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	26	amod	_	_
26	cities	city	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **take** | past · perfect |  | refuge |  | this place |  | the remnants of armies and fugitives from conquered cities *parataxis* | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent refuge=Value in place=Location |
| 2 | **conquer** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn subjugate-42.3 «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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