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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Defence of the Convent of St. George By Pelistes., sentence 41

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Magued, though an apostate, and a fierce warrior, possessed some sparks of knightly magnanimity.

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**Who acts:** fierce warrior, knightly magnanimity · **What happens:** possess, spark · **To what, where:** sparks, Magued

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This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Defence of the Convent of St. George By Pelistes.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fierce warrior, knightly magnanimity), 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:pg77685:25:41
# text = Magued, though an apostate, and a fierce warrior, possessed some sparks of knightly magnanimity.
1	Magued	Magued	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
3	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
4	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	apostate	apostate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	fierce	fierce	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	warrior	warrior	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	possessed	possess	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	acl	_	_
13	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	14	det	_	_
14	sparks	spark	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	knightly	knightly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	magnanimity	magnanimity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **possess** | participle | a fierce warrior *not said here* | some sparks of knightly magnanimity |  |  |  |  | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot spark=Theme |
| 3 | **spark** |  | knightly magnanimity |  |  |  |  |  | nom spark «event intransitive»: of=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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