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title: Count Julian issued out of the gate of the city, followed by a shini… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: Count Julian issued out of the gate of the city, followed by a shining band of chosen followers, while beside him, on a palfrey, rode the pale and weeping Florinda. Who acts: you, Julian. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Chapter VIII., with its dependency tree a
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter VIII., sentence 40

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Count Julian issued out of the gate of the city, followed by a shining band of chosen followers, while beside him, on a palfrey, rode the pale and weeping Florinda.

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**Who acts:** you, Julian · **What happens:** count, issue, follow, shine, choose, ride · **To what, where:** gate, city, Florinda

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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 (you, 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:pg77685:9:40
# text = Count Julian issued out of the gate of the city, followed by a shining band of chosen followers, while beside him, on a palfrey, rode the pale and weeping Florinda.
1	Count	count	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	Julian	Julian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	issued	issue	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	ccomp	_	_
4	out	out	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	gate	gate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	followed	follow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	acl	_	_
13	by	by	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	shining	shine	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	16	amod	_	_
16	band	band	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	chosen	choose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	amod	_	_
19	followers	follower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	23	mark	_	_
22	beside	beside	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	on	on	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	palfrey	palfrey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
29	rode	ride	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	parataxis	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	pale	pale	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	xcomp	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
33	weeping	weep	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	29	conj	_	_
34	Florinda	Florinda	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **count** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  | on a palfrey; JULIAN *parataxis* | tree rules |
| 2 | **issue** | past | Julian |  |  | the gate of the city |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme out gate=Location |
| 3 | **follow** | participle |  | the city *not said here* |  |  |  | by a shining band of chosen followers | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by band=Location |
| 4 | **shine** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **choose** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **ride** | past |  |  |  |  |  | pale *property* | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **weep** | gerund |  | Florinda |  |  |  |  | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent florinda=Theme |

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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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