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title: Embarking at Cadiz, he passed over to Africa with all his people and… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: Embarking at Cadiz, he passed over to Africa with all his people and effects, to regulate his government in that country. Who acts: Cadiz. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Chapter XIII., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter XIII., sentence 26

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Embarking at Cadiz, he passed over to Africa with all his people and effects, to regulate his government in that country.

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**Who acts:** Cadiz · **What happens:** embark, pass over, regulate · **To what, where:** Cadiz, Africa, government, country

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This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Chapter XIII.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Cadiz), 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:pg77685:34:26
# text = Embarking at Cadiz, he passed over to Africa with all his people and effects, to regulate his government in that country.
1	Embarking	embark	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
2	at	at	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
3	Cadiz	Cadiz	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	passed	pass	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	over	over	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	Africa	Africa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	13	det:predet	_	_
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	effects	effect	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	regulate	regulate	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
19	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	government	government	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	23	det	_	_
23	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **embark** | gerund | Cadiz *not said here* |  |  | Cadiz |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **pass over** | past | Cadiz |  |  | Africa |  | with Cadiz's people and effects | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to africa=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **regulate** | to-infinitive | Cadiz *not said here* | Cadiz's government |  | that country |  |  | tree rules |

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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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