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title: Muza besieges the City of Merida 233 — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: Muza besieges the City of Merida 233 Who acts: Muza. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Opening, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Opening, sentence 84

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Muza besieges the City of Merida 233

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**Who acts:** Muza · **What happens:** besiege · **To what, where:** City

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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 (Muza), 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:pg77685:1:84
# text = Muza besieges the City of Merida 233
1	Muza	Muza	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	besieges	besiege	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	City	City	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Merida	Merida	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
7	233	233	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	2	list	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **besiege** | present | Muza | the City of Merida |  |  |  | 233 *list* | tree rules |

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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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