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title: The Casa del Gallo, even until within twenty years, possessed two gr… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: The Casa del Gallo, even until within twenty years, possessed two great halls beautifully decorated with Morisco reliefs. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Fate of Abdalasis and Exilona.—death of Muza., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Fate of Abdalasis and Exilona.—death of Muza., sentence 73

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The Casa del Gallo, even until within twenty years, possessed two great halls beautifully decorated with Morisco reliefs.

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**What happens:** possess, decorate · **To what, where:** two great halls, del Gallo

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This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Fate of Abdalasis and Exilona.—death of Muza.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg77685:38:74
# text = The Casa del Gallo, even until within twenty years, possessed two great halls beautifully decorated with Morisco reliefs.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	Casa	Casa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	del	Del	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	Gallo	Gallo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
6	even	even	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
7	until	until	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	within	within	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	twenty	twenty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
10	years	year	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	possessed	possess	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	parataxis	_	_
13	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	15	nummod	_	_
14	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	halls	hall	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
16	beautifully	beautifully	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	decorated	decorate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	acl	_	_
18	with	with	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	Morisco	Morisco	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	reliefs	relief	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **possess** | participle |  | two great halls |  |  |  |  | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot hall=Theme |
| 2 | **decorate** | participle |  | two great halls *not said here* |  |  |  | with Morisco reliefs; beautifully *property* | vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with relief=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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