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title: He forthwith sent a summons to Count Julian to attend him in Cordova. — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: He forthwith sent a summons to Count Julian to attend him in Cordova. Who acts: astrologer. 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 60

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He forthwith sent a summons to Count Julian to attend him in Cordova.

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**Who acts:** astrologer · **What happens:** send, count, attend · **To what, where:** summons, Julian, astrologer, Cordova

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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 (astrologer), 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:pg77685:39:60
# text = He forthwith sent a summons to Count Julian to attend him in Cordova.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	forthwith	forthwith	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	sent	send	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	summons	summons	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
7	Count	count	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	advcl	_	_
8	Julian	Julian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	attend	attend	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	advcl	_	_
11	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	obj	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	Cordova	Cordova	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **send** | past | astrologer | a summons |  |  |  | forthwith *property* | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent summons=Theme |
| 2 | **count** | to-infinitive | astrologer *not said here* | Julian |  |  |  |  | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent julian=Theme |
| 3 | **attend** | to-infinitive | astrologer *not said here* |  | astrologer | Cordova |  |  | vn attend-107.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme he=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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