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title: “What kind of people are these Christians?” demanded the caliph. — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: “What kind of people are these Christians?” demanded the caliph. Who acts: Christians. 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 41

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“What kind of people are these Christians?” demanded the caliph.

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**Who acts:** Christians · **What happens:** be, demand · **To what, where:** Christians, caliph · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Christians), 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:pg77685:34:41
# text = “What kind of people are these Christians?” demanded the caliph.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	What	what	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	3	det	_	_
3	kind	kind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
6	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
7	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	8	det	_	_
8	Christians	Christian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
11	demanded	demand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	caliph	caliph	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** *in a quote* | present |  | this Christians |  |  |  | what kind of people *obj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **demand** *speech: request* | past | this Christians | the caliph |  |  |  |  | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme caliph=Precondition |

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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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