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title: Count Julian established his seat of government at Ceuta, the fronti… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: Count Julian established his seat of government at Ceuta, the frontier bulwark, and one of the far-famed gates of the Mediterranean Sea. Who acts: you, Julian. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Of Count Julian., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ever
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Of Count Julian., sentence 7

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Count Julian established his seat of government at Ceuta, the frontier bulwark, and one of the far-famed gates of the Mediterranean Sea.

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**Who acts:** you, Julian · **What happens:** count, establish, fame · **To what, where:** seat, Ceuta

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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 (you, Julian), 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:pg77685:5:7
# text = Count Julian established his seat of government at Ceuta, the frontier bulwark, and one of the far-famed gates of the Mediterranean Sea.
1	Count	count	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	Julian	Julian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	established	establish	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	ccomp	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	seat	seat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	government	government	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
8	at	at	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	Ceuta	Ceuta	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	frontier	frontier	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	bulwark	bulwark	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	1	conj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
19	far	far	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	famed	fame	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	amod	_	_
22	gates	gate	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nmod	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
25	Mediterranean	Mediterranean	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	compound	_	_
26	Sea	Sea	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **count** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | one of the famed gates of the Mediterranean Sea *conj* | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent clause=Attribute |
| 2 | **establish** | past | Julian | Julian's seat of government |  | Ceuta |  |  | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent seat=Patient |
| 3 | **fame** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |

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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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