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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Legend of Count Julian and His Family., sentence 94

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To these they set fire, and withdrew to a distance, keeping up a constant shower of missiles to prevent the Moors from sallying forth to extinguish the flames.

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**Who acts:** soldiers · **What happens:** set, withdraw, keep up, prevent, sally, extinguish · **To what, where:** fire, constant shower, Moors, flames

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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 (soldiers), 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:pg77685:39:94
# text = To these they set fire, and withdrew to a distance, keeping up a constant shower of missiles to prevent the Moors from sallying forth to extinguish the flames.
1	To	to	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	these	this	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	4	obl	_	_
3	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	set	set	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	withdrew	withdraw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	distance	distance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	keeping	keep	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
14	up	up	ADP	RP	_	13	compound:prt	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	constant	constant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	shower	shower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	missiles	missile	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	nmod	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	prevent	prevent	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	advcl	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	Moors	moor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obj	_	_
24	from	from	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
25	sallying	sally	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	21	advcl	_	_
26	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
27	to	to	PART	TO	_	28	mark	_	_
28	extinguish	extinguish	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	xcomp	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	flames	flame	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **set** | past | soldiers *= soldier* | fire |  |  |  | to these | vn other\_cos-45.4-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Patient fire=Result |
| 2 | **withdraw** | past | soldiers *= soldier* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to a distance | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to distance=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **keep up** | gerund | soldiers *= soldier* *not said here* | a constant shower of missiles |  |  |  |  | vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent shower=Theme |
| 4 | **prevent** | to-infinitive | soldiers *= soldier* *not said here* | the Moors |  |  |  |  | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Causer moor=Theme |
| 5 | **sally** | gerund | soldiers *= soldier* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | forth *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **extinguish** | to-infinitive | soldiers *= soldier* *not said here* | the flames |  |  |  |  | vn remedy-45.7-1 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent flame=Patient |

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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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