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title: A murmur of applause passed through the assemblage of Moslem captains. — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: A murmur of applause passed through the assemblage of Moslem captains. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Chapter XI., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter XI., sentence 18

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A murmur of applause passed through the assemblage of Moslem captains.

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**What happens:** pass, murmur · **To what, where:** murmur, assemblage, applause

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This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Chapter XI.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg77685:12:18
# text = A murmur of applause passed through the assemblage of Moslem captains.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	murmur	murmur	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	applause	applause	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	passed	pass	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
6	through	through	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	assemblage	assemblage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	Moslem	Moslem	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	captains	captain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pass** | participle |  | a murmur of applause *not said here* |  | the assemblage of Moslem captains |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme through assemblage=Location |
| 3 | **murmur** |  |  | applause |  |  |  |  | nom murmur «event transitive»: of=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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