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title: The same expeditious mode of conquest that had been sagaciously adop… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: The same expeditious mode of conquest that had been sagaciously adopted by Taric was still pursued. Who acts: Taric. 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 3

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The same expeditious mode of conquest that had been sagaciously adopted by Taric was still pursued.

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**Who acts:** Taric · **What happens:** adopt, pursue · **To what, where:** conquest, same expeditious mode

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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), 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:pg77685:33:3
# text = The same expeditious mode of conquest that had been sagaciously adopted by Taric was still pursued.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	same	same	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	expeditious	expeditious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	mode	mode	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	conquest	conquest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
7	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	11	nsubj:pass	_	_
8	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux	_	_
9	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	11	aux:pass	_	_
10	sagaciously	sagaciously	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	adopted	adopt	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl:relcl	_	_
12	by	by	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	Taric	Taric	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
14	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux:pass	_	_
15	still	still	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	pursued	pursue	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **adopt** | past · perfect · passive | Taric | conquest |  |  |  | sagaciously *property* | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme |
| 2 | **pursue** | past · passive |  | the same expeditious mode of conquest |  |  | still |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |

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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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