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title: He left the Countess Frandina at Algeziras, his paternal domain, for… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: He left the Countess Frandina at Algeziras, his paternal domain, for the province under his command was threatened with invasion. Who acts: course. 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 3

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He left the Countess Frandina at Algeziras, his paternal domain, for the province under his command was threatened with invasion.

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**Who acts:** course · **What happens:** leave, threaten, command · **To what, where:** Countess Frandina, Algeziras, command · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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), 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:pg77685:9:3
# text = He left the Countess Frandina at Algeziras, his paternal domain, for the province under his command was threatened with invasion.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	left	leave	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	Countess	Countess	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	compound	_	_
5	Frandina	Frandina	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Algeziras	Algeziras	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
10	paternal	paternal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	domain	domain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	for	for	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	province	province	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
16	under	under	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	command	command	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
19	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux:pass	_	_
20	threatened	threaten	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	parataxis	_	_
21	with	with	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	invasion	invasion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **leave** | past | course | the Countess Frandina |  | Algeziras |  | for the province | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent frandina=Theme at algeziras=Location |
| 2 | **threaten** | past · passive |  |  |  | course's command |  | with invasion | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle» |
| 3 | **command** |  | course |  |  |  |  |  | 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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