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title: The gate in the wall of that city, through which they went forth, co… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: The gate in the wall of that city, through which they went forth, continued for ages to bear the name of _Puerta de la Cava_, or the gate of the harlot; for such was the opprobrious and unmerited appellation bestowed by the Moors on the unhappy Florinda. Who acts: gate. A sentence of «Legends of the
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter VIII., sentence 70

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The gate in the wall of that city, through which they went forth, continued for ages to bear the name of \_Puerta de la Cava\_, or the gate of the harlot; for such was the opprobrious and unmerited appellation bestowed by the Moors on the unhappy Florinda.

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**Who acts:** gate · **What happens:** go, continue, bear, be, bestow, name · **To what, where:** gate, name, such opprobrious appellation, unhappy Florinda, Puerta

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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 (gate), 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:pg77685:9:70
# text = The gate in the wall of that city, through which they went forth, continued for ages to bear the name of _Puerta de la Cava_, or the gate of the harlot; for such was the opprobrious and unmerited appellation bestowed by the Moors on the unhappy Florinda.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	gate	gate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	wall	wall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	8	det	_	_
8	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
10	through	through	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	13	obl	_	_
12	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	went	go	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	continued	continue	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	parataxis	_	_
17	for	for	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	ages	age	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	bear	bear	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	advcl	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	23	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	Puerta	Puerta	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
26	de	de	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	25	flat:foreign	_	_
27	la	la	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	25	appos	_	_
28	Cava	Cava	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	_	_	PUNCT	NFP	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
31	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	gate	gate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	harlot	harlot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	45	punct	_	_
38	for	for	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
39	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	45	amod	_	_
40	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	45	cop	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
42	opprobrious	opprobrious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	45	amod	_	_
43	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
44	unmerited	unmerited	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	conj	_	_
45	appellation	appellation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
46	bestowed	bestow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	45	acl	_	_
47	by	by	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
48	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
49	Moors	moor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	46	obl	_	_
50	on	on	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
51	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	53	det	_	_
52	unhappy	unhappy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	53	amod	_	_
53	Florinda	Florinda	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	46	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **go** | past | the gate in the wall of that city | the gate of the harlot |  |  |  | which *obl*; things *= thing* *nsubj*; forth *property* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme through which=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **continue** | participle |  |  |  |  | for ages |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **bear** | to-infinitive |  | the name of Puerta |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent name=Patient |
| 4 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | for the such opprobrious appellation | tree rules |
| 5 | **bestow** | participle |  | the such opprobrious appellation *not said here* |  | the unhappy Florinda |  | by the Moors | tree rules |
| 6 | **name** |  |  | Puerta |  |  |  |  | nom name «communication 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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