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title: Alahor immediately ordered the city to be assailed on every side, an… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: Alahor immediately ordered the city to be assailed on every side, and at length carried it by storm. Who acts: Alahor. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Legend of Count Julian and His Family., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Legend of Count Julian and His Family., sentence 102

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Alahor immediately ordered the city to be assailed on every side, and at length carried it by storm.

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**Who acts:** Alahor · **What happens:** order, assail, carry · **To what, where:** city, side, length

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This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Legend of Count Julian and His Family.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Alahor), 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:pg77685:39:102
# text = Alahor immediately ordered the city to be assailed on every side, and at length carried it by storm.
1	Alahor	Alahor	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	immediately	immediately	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	ordered	order	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
7	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	aux:pass	_	_
8	assailed	assail	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl	_	_
9	on	on	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	11	det	_	_
11	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
14	at	at	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	length	length	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
16	carried	carry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
17	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obj	_	_
18	by	by	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	storm	storm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **order** | past | Alahor | the city |  |  |  | immediately *property* | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent city=Theme |
| 2 | **assail** | to-infinitive · passive | Alahor *not said here* | the city *not said here* |  | every side |  |  | vn attack-60.1 «NP V NP» |
| 3 | **carry** | past | Alahor *not said here* | length |  | length |  | by storm | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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