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title: Among the generals of Muza was a gaunt swarthy veteran, scarred with… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: Among the generals of Muza was a gaunt swarthy veteran, scarred with wounds; a very Arab, whose great delight was roving and desperate enterprise; and who cared for nothing beyond his steed, his lance, and his scimitar. Who acts: great delight. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Was
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter IX., sentence 23

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Among the generals of Muza was a gaunt swarthy veteran, scarred with wounds; a very Arab, whose great delight was roving and desperate enterprise; and who cared for nothing beyond his steed, his lance, and his scimitar.

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**Who acts:** great delight · **What happens:** be, scar, rove, care · **To what, where:** gaunt swarthy veteran

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This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Chapter IX.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (great delight), 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:pg77685:10:23
# text = Among the generals of Muza was a gaunt swarthy veteran, scarred with wounds; a very Arab, whose great delight was roving and desperate enterprise; and who cared for nothing beyond his steed, his lance, and his scimitar.
1	Among	among	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	generals	general	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Muza	Muza	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
8	gaunt	gaunt	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
9	swarthy	swarthy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	veteran	veteran	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	scarred	scar	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	acl	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	wounds	wound	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	very	very	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	Arab	Arab	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
20	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	22	nmod:poss	_	_
21	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	delight	delight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
23	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	roving	rove	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	18	conj	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
26	desperate	desperate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	enterprise	enterprise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	31	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
30	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	31	nsubj	_	_
31	cared	care	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	conj	_	_
32	for	for	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	31	obl	_	_
34	beyond	beyond	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	36	nmod:poss	_	_
36	steed	steed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	39	punct	_	_
38	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	39	nmod:poss	_	_
39	lance	lance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
41	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
42	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	43	nmod:poss	_	_
43	scimitar	scimitar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  | a gaunt swarthy veteran |  |  |  | among the generals of Muza | tree rules |
| 2 | **scar** | participle |  | a gaunt swarthy veteran *not said here* |  |  |  | with wounds | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent with wound=Theme |
| 3 | **rove** | past · progressive | great delight |  |  |  |  | desperate enterprise *conj* | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **care** | past |  |  |  |  |  | for nothing beyond delight's steed  delight's lance; who *nsubj* | vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent for nothing=Theme |

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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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