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title: He divided the command between his sons Abdelola and Meruan, leaving… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: He divided the command between his sons Abdelola and Meruan, leaving the former in Tangier, and the latter in Cairvan. 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 27

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He divided the command between his sons Abdelola and Meruan, leaving the former in Tangier, and the latter in Cairvan.

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**Who acts:** Cadiz · **What happens:** divide, leave · **To what, where:** command, former, Tangier

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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:pg77685:34:27
# text = He divided the command between his sons Abdelola and Meruan, leaving the former in Tangier, and the latter in Cairvan.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	divided	divide	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	command	command	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	between	between	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	sons	son	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	_
8	Abdelola	Abdelola	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	Meruan	Meruan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	leaving	leave	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	former	former	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	obj	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	Tangier	Tangier	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	latter	latter	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	parataxis	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	Cairvan	Cairvan	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **divide** | past | Cadiz | the command |  |  |  | between Cadiz's sons | vn multiply-108-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent command=Theme |
| 2 | **leave** | gerund | Cadiz *not said here* | the former |  | Tangier |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent former=Theme in tangier=Location |

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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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