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title: In fact, when he arrived at Ceuta he found his post in imminent dang… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: In fact, when he arrived at Ceuta he found his post in imminent danger from the all-conquering Moslems. 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 4

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In fact, when he arrived at Ceuta he found his post in imminent danger from the all-conquering Moslems.

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**Who acts:** course · **What happens:** arrive, find, conquer · **To what, where:** Ceuta, post, fact

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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:pg77685:9:4
# text = In fact, when he arrived at Ceuta he found his post in imminent danger from the all-conquering Moslems.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	fact	fact	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	6	advmod	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	arrived	arrive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	_
7	at	at	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Ceuta	Ceuta	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	post	post	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	imminent	imminent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	danger	danger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
16	from	from	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
18	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	20	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	conquering	conquer	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	21	amod	_	_
21	Moslems	Moslem	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **arrive** | past | course |  |  | Ceuta |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **find** | past | course | course's post |  | fact |  | in imminent danger from the conquering Moslems | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent post=Topic |
| 3 | **conquer** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=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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