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title: By the advice of the bishop, Count Julian called a secret meeting of… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: By the advice of the bishop, Count Julian called a secret meeting of his relatives and adherents on a wild rocky mountain, not far from Consuegra, and which still bears the Moorish appellation of “La Sierra de Calderin,” or the mountain of treason. Who acts: you, Julian. A sentence of «Legends of th
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter VIII., sentence 56

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By the advice of the bishop, Count Julian called a secret meeting of his relatives and adherents on a wild rocky mountain, not far from Consuegra, and which still bears the Moorish appellation of “La Sierra de Calderin,” or the mountain of treason.

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**Who acts:** you, Julian · **What happens:** count, call · **To what, where:** secret meeting, wild rocky mountain · **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 (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:pg77685:9:56
# text = By the advice of the bishop, Count Julian called a secret meeting of his relatives and adherents on a wild rocky mountain, not far from Consuegra, and which still bears the Moorish appellation of “La Sierra de Calderin,” or the mountain of treason.
1	By	by	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	advice	advice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	bishop	bishop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	Count	count	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	Julian	Julian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nsubj	_	_
10	called	call	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	ccomp	_	_
11	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	secret	secret	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	meeting	meeting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	relatives	relative	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	adherents	adherent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	conj	_	_
19	on	on	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
21	wild	wild	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
22	rocky	rocky	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	mountain	mountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	26	advmod	_	_
26	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	8	advmod	_	_
27	from	from	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	Consuegra	Consuegra	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
31	which	which	DET	WDT	PronType=Int	33	det	_	_
32	still	still	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
33	bears	bear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	parataxis	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
35	Moorish	moorish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	appellation	appellation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	appos	_	_
37	of	of	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	39	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	La	La	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	36	nmod	_	_
40	Sierra	Sierra	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	39	flat	_	_
41	de	de	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	39	flat	_	_
42	Calderin	Calderin	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	39	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	39	punct	_	_
45	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	47	cc	_	_
46	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
47	mountain	mountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	conj	_	_
48	of	of	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
49	treason	treason	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## 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* |  |  |  |  | by the advice of the bishop; which bears *parataxis*; far *property* | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent clause=Attribute |
| 2 | **call** | past | Julian | a secret meeting of JULIAN's relatives and adherents |  | a wild rocky mountain |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent meeting=Recipient |

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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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