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title: So rapid were his movements that the count had barely time to escape… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: So rapid were his movements that the count had barely time to escape with fifteen cavaliers, with whom he took refuge in the strong castle of Marcuello, among the mountains of Arragon. Who acts: count. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Legend of Count Julian and 
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Legend of Count Julian and His Family., sentence 68

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So rapid were his movements that the count had barely time to escape with fifteen cavaliers, with whom he took refuge in the strong castle of Marcuello, among the mountains of Arragon.

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**Who acts:** count · **What happens:** be, have, escape, take · **To what, where:** rapid movements, refuge, strong castle

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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 (count), 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:pg77685:39:68
# text = So rapid were his movements that the count had barely time to escape with fifteen cavaliers, with whom he took refuge in the strong castle of Marcuello, among the mountains of Arragon.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	rapid	rapid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
3	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	movements	movement	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
6	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	count	count	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	advcl	_	_
10	barely	barely	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	escape	escape	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	acl	_	_
14	with	with	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	fifteen	fifteen	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	16	nummod	_	_
16	cavaliers	cavalier	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	with	with	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	9	conj	_	_
20	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	acl:relcl	_	_
22	refuge	refuge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	castle	castle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	Marcuello	Marcuello	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
30	among	among	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	mountains	mountain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	conj	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	Arragon	Arragon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  | Carthagena's rapid movements |  |  |  | Carthagena *nmod:poss* | tree rules |
| 2 | **have** | past | the count |  |  |  | time | Carthagena's rapid movements *conj* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **escape** | to-infinitive | the count *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with fifteen cavaliers | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **take** | past | Count | refuge |  | the strong castle of Marcuello |  | the mountains of Arragon *conj* | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent refuge=Value in castle=Location |

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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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