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title: The words of the veteran pleased Muza ben Nosier, and he gave his co… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: The words of the veteran pleased Muza ben Nosier, and he gave his consent; and Taric departed with four galleys and five hundred men, guided by the traitor Julian. Who acts: words, Taric, delight. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Chapter IX., with its dependency
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter IX., sentence 28

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The words of the veteran pleased Muza ben Nosier, and he gave his consent; and Taric departed with four galleys and five hundred men, guided by the traitor Julian.

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**Who acts:** words, Taric, delight · **What happens:** give, depart, guide, word, consent · **To what, where:** consent, 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 (words, Taric, 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:pg77685:10:28
# text = The words of the veteran pleased Muza ben Nosier, and he gave his consent; and Taric departed with four galleys and five hundred men, guided by the traitor Julian.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	veteran	veteran	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	pleased	pleased	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
7	Muza	Muza	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	ben	ben	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	_
9	Nosier	Nosier	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	consent	consent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	Taric	Taric	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
19	departed	depart	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	parataxis	_	_
20	with	with	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	22	nummod	_	_
22	galleys	galley	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
24	five	five	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	25	compound	_	_
25	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	26	nummod	_	_
26	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
28	guided	guide	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	conj	_	_
29	by	by	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	traitor	traitor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	_
32	Julian	Julian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	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 | **give** | past | the words of the veteran and pleased Muza ben | delight's consent |  |  |  | delight *nsubj* | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent consent=Theme |
| 2 | **depart** | past | Taric |  |  |  |  | with four galleys and hundred men | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **guide** | participle | Taric *not said here* |  |  |  |  | by the traitor | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent by traitor=Destination |
| 4 | **word** |  |  | the veteran and pleased Muza ben |  |  |  |  | nom word «communication transitive»: of=patient |
| 5 | **consent** |  | delight |  |  |  |  |  | nom consent «communication transitive»: poss=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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