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title: The plan of Count Julian was to hurl King Roderick from his throne,… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: The plan of Count Julian was to hurl King Roderick from his throne, and to deliver all Spain into the hands of the infidels. Who acts: plan. 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 29

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The plan of Count Julian was to hurl King Roderick from his throne, and to deliver all Spain into the hands of the infidels.

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**Who acts:** plan · **What happens:** be, deliver, plan · **To what, where:** throne, Spain, hands, Count Julian

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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 (plan), 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:pg77685:9:29
# text = The plan of Count Julian was to hurl King Roderick from his throne, and to deliver all Spain into the hands of the infidels.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	plan	plan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	Count	Count	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	Julian	Julian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	hurl	hurl	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
9	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
10	Roderick	Roderick	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	flat	_	_
11	from	from	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	throne	throne	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	deliver	deliver	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	conj	_	_
18	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	19	det	_	_
19	Spain	Spain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	into	into	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	infidels	infidel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the plan of Count Julian |  |  | king's throne |  | King *obj*; hurl *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **deliver** | to-infinitive | the plan of Count Julian *not said here* | all Spain |  | the hands of the infidels |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spain=Patient |
| 3 | **plan** |  |  | Count Julian |  |  |  |  | nom plan «cognition transitive»: of=patient |

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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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