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title: In the meantime the Moorish bark came rolling and pitching towards t… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: In the meantime the Moorish bark came rolling and pitching towards the land. Who acts: Moorish bark. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Of the Loves of Roderick and the Princess Elyata., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Of the Loves of Roderick and the Princess Elyata., sentence 9

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In the meantime the Moorish bark came rolling and pitching towards the land.

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**Who acts:** Moorish bark · **What happens:** come, roll, pitch · **To what, where:** meantime, land

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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 (Moorish bark), 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:pg77685:4:9
# text = In the meantime the Moorish bark came rolling and pitching towards the land.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	meantime	meantime	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	Moorish	moorish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	bark	bark	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj	_	_
7	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	rolling	roll	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	pitching	pitch	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	conj	_	_
11	towards	towards	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | the Moorish bark |  |  | the meantime |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in meantime=Location |
| 2 | **roll** | gerund | the Moorish bark *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **pitch** | gerund | the Moorish bark *not said here* |  |  | the land |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent towards land=Destination |

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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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