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title: Summoning her officers, therefore, she informed them of their danger… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: Summoning her officers, therefore, she informed them of their danger, and commanded them to put those Moors to death. Who acts: Frandina. 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 ever
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Legend of Count Julian and His Family., sentence 86

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Summoning her officers, therefore, she informed them of their danger, and commanded them to put those Moors to death.

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**Who acts:** Frandina · **What happens:** summon, inform, command, put · **To what, where:** officers, Moors · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Frandina), 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:pg77685:39:86
# text = Summoning her officers, therefore, she informed them of their danger, and commanded them to put those Moors to death.
1	Summoning	summon	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
2	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	officers	officer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	1	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	therefore	therefore	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
7	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	nsubj	_	_
8	informed	inform	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	iobj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	danger	danger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	commanded	command	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
16	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	put	put	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	advcl	_	_
19	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	20	det	_	_
20	Moors	moor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	_
21	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **summon** | gerund | Frandina *not said here* | Frandina's officers |  |  |  | therefore *property* | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent officer=Recipient |
| 2 | **inform** *speech: other* | past | Frandina |  | officers *= officer* |  |  | of officers's danger | vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient PP.topic»: agent=Agent they=Recipient of danger=Topic |
| 3 | **command** | past | Frandina *not said here* | officers *= officer* |  |  |  |  | vn supervision-95.2.2-1 «NP V NP.predicate»: agent=Agent they=Eventuality |
| 4 | **put** | to-infinitive | Frandina *not said here* | that Moors |  |  |  | to death | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent moor=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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