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title: After a vehement conflict, the Moslem assailants were repulsed from… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: After a vehement conflict, the Moslem assailants were repulsed from all points, and driven from the walls. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Chapter VIII., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter VIII., sentence 14

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After a vehement conflict, the Moslem assailants were repulsed from all points, and driven from the walls.

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**What happens:** repulse, drive · **To what, where:** Moslem assailants, points, walls

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This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Chapter VIII.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg77685:9:14
# text = After a vehement conflict, the Moslem assailants were repulsed from all points, and driven from the walls.
1	After	after	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	vehement	vehement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	conflict	conflict	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	Moslem	Moslem	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	assailants	assailant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nsubj:pass	_	_
9	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux:pass	_	_
10	repulsed	repulse	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
11	from	from	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	13	det	_	_
13	points	point	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	driven	drive	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	conj	_	_
17	from	from	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	walls	wall	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **repulse** | past · passive |  | the Moslem assailants |  | all points | after a vehement conflict |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer |
| 2 | **drive** | participle |  |  |  | the walls |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent from wall=Trajectory |

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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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