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title: When about to depart for Ceuta, to resume his command, Don Julian br… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: When about to depart for Ceuta, to resume his command, Don Julian brought his daughter Florinda to present her to the sovereigns. Who acts: command, Ceuta. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Of Count Julian., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every cl
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Of Count Julian., sentence 15

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When about to depart for Ceuta, to resume his command, Don Julian brought his daughter Florinda to present her to the sovereigns.

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**Who acts:** command, Ceuta · **What happens:** depart, resume, bring, present, command · **To what, where:** daughter, Florinda, sovereigns · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Of Count Julian.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (command, Ceuta), 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:pg77685:5:15
# text = When about to depart for Ceuta, to resume his command, Don Julian brought his daughter Florinda to present her to the sovereigns.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	4	advmod	_	_
2	about	about	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	to	to	PART	TO	_	4	mark	_	_
4	depart	depart	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Ceuta	Ceuta	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	to	to	PART	TO	_	9	mark	_	_
9	resume	resume	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
10	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	command	command	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	Don	Don	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	appos	_	_
14	Julian	Julian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	flat	_	_
15	brought	bring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	parataxis	_	_
16	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	daughter	daughter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
18	Florinda	Florinda	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	appos	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	present	present	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	advcl	_	_
21	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	obj	_	_
22	to	to	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	sovereigns	sovereign	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **depart** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | for Ceuta | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **resume** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 3 | **bring** | past | Ceuta's command |  | Don's daughter |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument daughter=Destination |
| 4 | **present** | to-infinitive | Ceuta's command *not said here* | Florinda | the sovereigns |  |  |  | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent she=Theme to sovereign=Recipient |
| 5 | **command** |  | Ceuta |  |  |  |  |  | nom command «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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