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title: He remarked one among them who ever sat apart; and neither joined in… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: He remarked one among them who ever sat apart; and neither joined in the labours nor sports of her companions. Who acts: Abdalasis. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Loves of Abdalasis and Exilona., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Loves of Abdalasis and Exilona., sentence 9

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He remarked one among them who ever sat apart; and neither joined in the labours nor sports of her companions.

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**Who acts:** Abdalasis · **What happens:** remark, sit, join · **To what, where:** one

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This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Loves of Abdalasis and Exilona.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Abdalasis), 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:pg77685:37:9
# text = He remarked one among them who ever sat apart; and neither joined in the labours nor sports of her companions.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	remarked	remark	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	obj	_	_
4	among	among	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obl	_	_
6	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	_
7	ever	ever	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	8	advmod	_	_
8	sat	sit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
9	apart	apart	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	neither	neither	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	_
13	joined	join	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	parataxis	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	labours	labour	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	_
17	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	18	cc	_	_
18	sports	sport	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	conj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	companions	companion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **remark** *speech: assert* | past | Abdalasis | one |  |  |  | among intervals *= interval* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent one=Topic |
| 2 | **sit** | past |  |  |  |  | ever | who *nsubj*; apart *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **join** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | in the labours of Lusitania's companions nor sports; neither *property* | vn cooperate-73.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in labour=Theme |

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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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