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title: It is populous also, and wealthy; having many splendid cities, and m… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: It is populous also, and wealthy; having many splendid cities, and majestic monuments of ancient art. Who acts: spoil. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Letter of Muza to the Caliph.—second Expedition of Taric El Tuerto., with its dependency tree and the pragmati
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Letter of Muza to the Caliph.—second Expedition of Taric El Tuerto., sentence 3

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It is populous also, and wealthy; having many splendid cities, and majestic monuments of ancient art.

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**Who acts:** spoil · **What happens:** be, have · **To what, where:** populous, many splendid cities

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This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Letter of Muza to the Caliph.—second Expedition of Taric El Tuerto.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (spoil), 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:pg77685:11:3
# text = It is populous also, and wealthy; having many splendid cities, and majestic monuments of ancient art.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	populous	populace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	also	also	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	wealthy	wealthy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
9	having	have	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
10	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
11	splendid	splendid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	cities	city	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	majestic	majestic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	monuments	monument	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	ancient	ancient	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	art	art	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | present | spoil | populous |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** |  | spoil *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **have** | gerund | spoil *not said here* | many splendid cities |  |  |  | majestic monuments of ancient art *obl* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent city=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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