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title: There were those who had followed Muza from the fertile regions of E… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: There were those who had followed Muza from the fertile regions of Egypt, across the deserts of Barca, and those who had joined his standard from among the sunburnt tribes of Mauritania. Who acts: those. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Chapter IX., with its dep
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter IX., sentence 5

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There were those who had followed Muza from the fertile regions of Egypt, across the deserts of Barca, and those who had joined his standard from among the sunburnt tribes of Mauritania.

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**Who acts:** those · **What happens:** be, follow, join · **To what, where:** Muza, fertile regions, standard, sunburnt tribes

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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 (those), 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:pg77685:10:5
# text = There were those who had followed Muza from the fertile regions of Egypt, across the deserts of Barca, and those who had joined his standard from among the sunburnt tribes of Mauritania.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	were	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	those	that	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	2	nsubj	_	_
4	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	followed	follow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl:relcl	_	_
7	Muza	Muza	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
8	from	from	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	fertile	fertile	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	regions	region	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	Egypt	Egypt	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	across	across	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	deserts	desert	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	Barca	Barca	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	those	that	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	2	nsubj	_	_
23	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	25	nsubj	_	_
24	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
25	joined	join	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	22	acl:relcl	_	_
26	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	standard	standard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
28	from	from	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
29	among	among	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
31	sunburnt	sunburnt	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	tribes	tribe	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obl	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	Mauritania	Mauritania	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	32	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | past | those |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **follow** | past · perfect · passive |  | Muza |  | the fertile regions of Egypt |  | across the deserts of Barca; who *nsubj:pass* | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP.attribute»: subject=Theme muza=Attribute |
| 3 | **join** | past · perfect |  | Barca's standard |  | the sunburnt tribes of Mauritania |  | who *nsubj* | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent standard=Patient |

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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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