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title: Muza arrives at Damascus.—His Interview with the Caliph—The Table of… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: Muza arrives at Damascus.—His Interview with the Caliph—The Table of Solomon.—A rigorous Sentence 282 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 94

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Muza arrives at Damascus.—His Interview with the Caliph—The Table of Solomon.—A rigorous Sentence 282

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**Who acts:** Muza · **What happens:** arrive, interview · **To what, where:** Interview, Damascus

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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:pg77685:1:94
# text = Muza arrives at Damascus.—His Interview with the Caliph—The Table of Solomon.—A rigorous Sentence 282
1	Muza	Muza	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	arrives	arrive	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	at	at	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Damascus	Damascus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	Interview	interview	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
9	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	Caliph	Caliph	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	Table	Table	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	Solomon	Solomon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	rigorous	rigorous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	Sentence	sentence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
22	282	282	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	21	flat	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **arrive** | present | Muza | Muza's Interview with the Caliph and a rigorous Sentence |  | Damascus |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **interview** |  | Muza |  |  |  |  | with the Caliph | nom interview «communication intransitive»: poss=agent with=obl |

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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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