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title: Not long after the departure of his father, he received a letter fro… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: Not long after the departure of his father, he received a letter from him, written while on his journey to Syria; it was to the following purport:— Who acts: Abdalasis, letter, father. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Conduct of Abdalasis As Emir of Spain., with
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Conduct of Abdalasis As Emir of Spain., sentence 4

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Not long after the departure of his father, he received a letter from him, written while on his journey to Syria; it was to the following purport:—

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**Who acts:** Abdalasis, letter, father · **What happens:** receive, write, follow, be, depart, journey · **To what, where:** letter

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This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Conduct of Abdalasis As Emir of Spain.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Abdalasis, letter, father), 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:pg77685:36:4
# text = Not long after the departure of his father, he received a letter from him, written while on his journey to Syria; it was to the following purport:—
1	Not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	2	advmod	_	_
2	long	long	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	11	advmod	_	_
3	after	after	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	departure	departure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	received	receive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	advcl	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	letter	letter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obj	_	_
14	from	from	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	written	write	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	acl	_	_
18	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
19	on	on	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	journey	journey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	advcl	_	_
22	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	Syria	Syria	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
25	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	nsubj	_	_
26	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	cop	_	_
27	to	to	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	following	follow	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	30	case	_	_
30	purport	purport	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	30	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	30	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **receive** | past | Abdalasis | a letter |  |  |  | from father; long *property* | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent letter=Theme from he=Source |
| 2 | **write** | participle |  | a letter *not said here* |  |  |  | Abdalasis's journey to Syria *advcl* | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **follow** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **is** | past | letter |  |  |  |  | to the purport | tree rules |
| 5 | **depart** |  | Abdalasis's father |  |  |  |  |  | nom departure «act intransitive»: of=agent |
| 6 | **journey** |  | Abdalasis |  |  |  |  | to Syria | nom journey «act transitive»: poss=agent to=obl |

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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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