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title: Muza was astonished and exasperated at meeting with such formidable… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: Muza was astonished and exasperated at meeting with such formidable resistance from so small a city; for it was one of the few places, during that memorable conquest, where the Gothic valour shone forth with its proper lustre. Who acts: Muza, attack, Gothic valour. A sentence of «Legends of the conq
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Muza Ben Nozier.—his Entrance Into Spain, and Capture of Carmona., sentence 25

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Muza was astonished and exasperated at meeting with such formidable resistance from so small a city; for it was one of the few places, during that memorable conquest, where the Gothic valour shone forth with its proper lustre.

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**Who acts:** Muza, attack, Gothic valour · **What happens:** be, exasperate, shine · **To what, where:** meeting

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This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Muza Ben Nozier.—his Entrance Into Spain, and Capture of Carmona.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Muza, attack, Gothic valour), 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:pg77685:28:25
# text = Muza was astonished and exasperated at meeting with such formidable resistance from so small a city; for it was one of the few places, during that memorable conquest, where the Gothic valour shone forth with its proper lustre.
1	Muza	Muza	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	astonished	astonished	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	exasperated	exasperate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
6	at	at	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	meeting	meeting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
10	formidable	formidable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	resistance	resistance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	_
12	from	from	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
13	so	so	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
18	for	for	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
20	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
21	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	conj	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	places	place	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
27	during	during	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	30	det	_	_
29	memorable	memorable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	conquest	conquest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
32	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	36	advmod	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
34	Gothic	gothic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	valour	valour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nsubj	_	_
36	shone	shine	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	30	acl:relcl	_	_
37	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	36	advmod	_	_
38	with	with	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
39	its	its	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	41	nmod:poss	_	_
40	proper	proper	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	amod	_	_
41	lustre	lustre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Muza |  |  |  |  | astonished *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **exasperate** | participle | Muza *not said here* |  |  | meeting with such formidable resistance from a small city |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **is** | past | attack |  |  |  |  | for one; of the few places during that memorable conquest | tree rules |
| 4 | **shine** | participle | the Gothic valour |  |  |  |  | with attack's proper lustre; forth *property* | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with lustre=Theme |

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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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