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title: Shortly after the arrival of Taric el Tuerto at Damascus the caliph… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: Shortly after the arrival of Taric el Tuerto at Damascus the caliph fell dangerously ill, insomuch that his life was despaired of. Who acts: caliph, insomuch, Taric el. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Chapter XIV., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter XIV., sentence 2

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Shortly after the arrival of Taric el Tuerto at Damascus the caliph fell dangerously ill, insomuch that his life was despaired of.

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**Who acts:** caliph, insomuch, Taric el · **What happens:** fall, despair, arrive · **To what, where:** insomuch, life

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This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Chapter XIV.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (caliph, insomuch, Taric el), 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:pg77685:35:2
# text = Shortly after the arrival of Taric el Tuerto at Damascus the caliph fell dangerously ill, insomuch that his life was despaired of.
1	Shortly	shortly	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
2	after	after	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	arrival	arrival	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	Taric	Taric	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	el	El	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
8	Tuerto	Tuerto	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	flat	_	_
9	at	at	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Damascus	Damascus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	caliph	caliph	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
13	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	dangerously	dangerously	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	ill	ill	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	insomuch	insomuch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
18	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
19	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj:pass	_	_
21	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux:pass	_	_
22	despaired	despair	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	acl:relcl	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fall** | past | the caliph | insomuch |  |  | after the arrival of Taric el at Damascus | ill, shortly *property* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **despair** | past · passive | insomuch *not said here* | CALIPH's life |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **arrive** |  | Taric el at Damascus |  |  |  |  |  | nom arrival «act intransitive»: of=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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