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title: Another was sent against the city of Malaga, and was led by Zayd ben… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: Another was sent against the city of Malaga, and was led by Zayd ben Kesadi, aided by the Bishop Oppas. Who acts: Zayd ben. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Chapter I., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter I., sentence 48

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Another was sent against the city of Malaga, and was led by Zayd ben Kesadi, aided by the Bishop Oppas.

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**Who acts:** Zayd ben · **What happens:** send, lead, aid · **To what, where:** Another

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This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Chapter I.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Zayd ben), 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:pg77685:22:48
# text = Another was sent against the city of Malaga, and was led by Zayd ben Kesadi, aided by the Bishop Oppas.
1	Another	another	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	sent	send	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	against	against	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	Malaga	Malaga	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux:pass	_	_
12	led	lead	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	parataxis	_	_
13	by	by	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	Zayd	Zayd	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	ben	ben	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
16	Kesadi	Kesadi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	aided	aid	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	conj	_	_
19	by	by	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	Bishop	Bishop	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	Oppas	Oppas	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **send** | past · passive |  | Another |  |  |  | against the city of Malaga | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **lead** | past · passive | Zayd ben |  |  |  |  |  | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition |
| 3 | **aid** | participle | Zayd ben *not said here* |  |  |  |  | by the Bishop Oppas | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=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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