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title: The Arab leader received it as the head of the unfortunate Roderick,… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: The Arab leader received it as the head of the unfortunate Roderick, and sent it, as a trophy of his victory, to Muza ben Nosier, who, in like manner, transmitted it to the caliph at Damascus. Who acts: Arab leader. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, The Field of 
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, The Field of Battle After the Defeat.—the Fate of Roderick., sentence 17

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The Arab leader received it as the head of the unfortunate Roderick, and sent it, as a trophy of his victory, to Muza ben Nosier, who, in like manner, transmitted it to the caliph at Damascus.

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**Who acts:** Arab leader · **What happens:** receive, send, transmit · **To what, where:** head, Muza ben, caliph

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This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, The Field of Battle After the Defeat.—the Fate of Roderick.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Arab leader), 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:pg77685:19:17
# text = The Arab leader received it as the head of the unfortunate Roderick, and sent it, as a trophy of his victory, to Muza ben Nosier, who, in like manner, transmitted it to the caliph at Damascus.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Arab	Arab	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	leader	leader	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	received	receive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	obj	_	_
6	as	as	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	unfortunate	unfortunate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	Roderick	Roderick	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	sent	send	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
16	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
18	as	as	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	trophy	trophy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	victory	victory	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	to	to	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	Muza	Muza	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	ben	Ben	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
28	Nosier	Nosier	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
30	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	34	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
32	in	in	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	like	like	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
34	manner	manner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
36	transmitted	transmit	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	conj	_	_
37	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	36	obj	_	_
38	to	to	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
39	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
40	caliph	caliph	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	_
41	at	at	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
42	Damascus	Damascus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	40	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **receive** | past | the Arab leader | head |  |  |  | as the head of the unfortunate Roderick | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
| 2 | **send** | past |  | head | Muza ben and manner  Muza ben and manner  Muza ben |  |  | as a trophy of Roderick's victory | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme to ben=Destination |
| 3 | **transmit** | past |  | head |  | the caliph at Damascus |  |  | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme to caliph=Destination |

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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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