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title: The course of our legendary narration now returns to notice the fort… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: The course of our legendary narration now returns to notice the fortunes of Count Julian, after his departure from Toledo, to resume his government on the coast of Barbary. Who acts: course, our, JULIAN. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Chapter VIII., with its d
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter VIII., sentence 2

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The course of our legendary narration now returns to notice the fortunes of Count Julian, after his departure from Toledo, to resume his government on the coast of Barbary.

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**Who acts:** course, our, JULIAN · **What happens:** return, notice, resume, narrate, depart · **To what, where:** fortunes, government, coast, Toledo

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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: who acts (course, our, 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:pg77685:9:2
# text = The course of our legendary narration now returns to notice the fortunes of Count Julian, after his departure from Toledo, to resume his government on the coast of Barbary.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	course	course	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
5	legendary	legendary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	narration	narration	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
7	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	8	advmod	_	_
8	returns	return	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	to	to	PART	TO	_	10	mark	_	_
10	notice	notice	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	xcomp	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	fortunes	fortune	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	Count	Count	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	Julian	Julian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	after	after	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	departure	departure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
20	from	from	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	Toledo	Toledo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	resume	resume	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	conj	_	_
25	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	26	nmod:poss	_	_
26	government	government	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
27	on	on	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	coast	coast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	Barbary	Barbary	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **return** | present | the course of our legendary narration |  |  |  | now |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **notice** | to-infinitive | the course of our legendary narration *not said here* | the fortunes of Count Julian |  |  | after JULIAN's departure from Toledo |  | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer fortune=Stimulus |
| 3 | **resume** | to-infinitive | the course of our legendary narration *not said here* | JULIAN's government |  | the coast of Barbary |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent government=Eventuality |
| 4 | **narrate** |  | our |  |  |  |  |  | nom narration «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
| 5 | **depart** |  | JULIAN |  |  | Toledo |  |  | nom departure «act intransitive»: poss=agent from=place |

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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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