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title: As this brilliant cavalcade crossed the bridge of the Tagus, all Tol… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: As this brilliant cavalcade crossed the bridge of the Tagus, all Toledo poured forth to behold it; and nothing was heard throughout the city but praises of the wonderful beauty of the princess of Algiers. Who acts: brilliant cavalcade, Toledo. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Wash
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Of the Loves of Roderick and the Princess Elyata., sentence 28

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As this brilliant cavalcade crossed the bridge of the Tagus, all Toledo poured forth to behold it; and nothing was heard throughout the city but praises of the wonderful beauty of the princess of Algiers.

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**Who acts:** brilliant cavalcade, Toledo · **What happens:** cross, pour, behold, hear, praise · **To what, where:** bridge, nothing, wonderful beauty

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This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Of the Loves of Roderick and the Princess Elyata.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (brilliant cavalcade, Toledo), 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:pg77685:4:28
# text = As this brilliant cavalcade crossed the bridge of the Tagus, all Toledo poured forth to behold it; and nothing was heard throughout the city but praises of the wonderful beauty of the princess of Algiers.
1	As	as	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
2	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	det	_	_
3	brilliant	brilliant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	cavalcade	cavalcade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
5	crossed	cross	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	advcl	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	bridge	bridge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	Tagus	Tagus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
12	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	13	det	_	_
13	Toledo	Toledo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	poured	pour	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
15	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	behold	behold	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	xcomp	_	_
18	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	23	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
21	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	23	nsubj:pass	_	_
22	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	aux:pass	_	_
23	heard	hear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	conj	_	_
24	throughout	throughout	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
27	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	praises	praise	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	conj	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	wonderful	wonderful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	beauty	beauty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	princess	princess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nmod	_	_
36	of	of	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	Algiers	Algier	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	35	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cross** | past | this brilliant cavalcade | the bridge of the Tagus |  |  |  |  | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bridge=Patient |
| 2 | **pour** | past | all Toledo |  |  |  |  | forth *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **behold** | to-infinitive | all Toledo *not said here* | bridge |  |  |  |  | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |
| 4 | **hear** | past · passive |  | nothing |  |  | throughout the city but praises of the wonderful beauty of the princess of Algiers |  | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Stimulus |
| 5 | **praise** |  |  | the wonderful beauty of the princess of Algiers |  |  |  |  | nom praise «communication transitive»: of=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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