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title: Upon this, Taric drew from beneath his robe a foot of emerald of lik… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: Upon this, Taric drew from beneath his robe a foot of emerald of like workmanship to the others, and fitting exactly to the table. Who acts: Taric. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Chapter XIV., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter XIV., sentence 20

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Upon this, Taric drew from beneath his robe a foot of emerald of like workmanship to the others, and fitting exactly to the table.

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**Who acts:** Taric · **What happens:** draw, fit · **To what, where:** foot, robe, table

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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 (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:pg77685:35:20
# text = Upon this, Taric drew from beneath his robe a foot of emerald of like workmanship to the others, and fitting exactly to the table.
1	Upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	this	this	PRON	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	Taric	Taric	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	drew	draw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	from	from	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	beneath	beneath	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	robe	robe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	foot	foot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	emerald	emerald	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	like	like	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	workmanship	workmanship	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	fitting	fit	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
23	exactly	exactly	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
24	to	to	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	table	table	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **draw** | past | Taric | a foot of emerald of workmanship to the others |  | Taric's robe |  | upon this | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: agent=Agent foot=Theme from robe=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **fit** | gerund | Taric *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to the table *goal* | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent to table=Goal |

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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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