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title: The storm of Moslem invasion that swept so suddenly over the peninsu… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: The storm of Moslem invasion that swept so suddenly over the peninsula, silenced for a time the faint voice of the Muse, and drove the sons of learning from their cells. Who acts: Moslem invasion, storm, sons. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Opening, with its d
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Opening, sentence 8

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The storm of Moslem invasion that swept so suddenly over the peninsula, silenced for a time the faint voice of the Muse, and drove the sons of learning from their cells.

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**Who acts:** Moslem invasion, storm, sons · **What happens:** sweep, silence, drive, learn, storm · **To what, where:** peninsula, faint voice, sons, cells

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This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Opening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Moslem invasion, storm, sons), 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:pg77685:1:8
# text = The storm of Moslem invasion that swept so suddenly over the peninsula, silenced for a time the faint voice of the Muse, and drove the sons of learning from their cells.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	storm	storm	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	Moslem	Moslem	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	invasion	invasion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	7	nsubj	_	_
7	swept	sweep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	acl:relcl	_	_
8	so	so	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
10	over	over	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	peninsula	peninsula	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	silenced	silence	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
15	for	for	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	faint	faint	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	voice	voice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	Muse	muse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	drove	drive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	sons	son	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obj	_	_
29	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	30	mark	_	_
30	learning	learn	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	28	acl	_	_
31	from	from	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	33	nmod:poss	_	_
33	cells	cell	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sweep** | past | Moslem invasion |  |  | the peninsula |  | suddenly *property* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over peninsula=Trajectory |
| 2 | **silence** | participle | the storm of Moslem invasion | the faint voice of the Muse |  |  | time |  | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent voice=Patient |
| 3 | **drive** | past | the storm of Moslem invasion *not said here* | the sons |  |  |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Theme |
| 4 | **learn** | gerund | the sons *not said here* |  |  | sons's cells |  |  | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent from cell=Source |
| 5 | **storm** |  | Moslem invasion |  |  |  |  |  | nom storm «phenomenon intransitive»: of=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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