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title: The Arabs scoured the streets; a horrible massacre was commenced, in… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: The Arabs scoured the streets; a horrible massacre was commenced, in which none were spared but such of the females as were young and beautiful, and fitted to grace the harems of the conquerors. Who acts: Arabs. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Muza Ben Nozier.—
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Muza Ben Nozier.—his Entrance Into Spain, and Capture of Carmona., sentence 36

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The Arabs scoured the streets; a horrible massacre was commenced, in which none were spared but such of the females as were young and beautiful, and fitted to grace the harems of the conquerors.

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**Who acts:** Arabs · **What happens:** scour, commence, spare, be, fit, grace · **To what, where:** streets, horrible massacre, none, harems

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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 (Arabs), 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:pg77685:28:36
# text = The Arabs scoured the streets; a horrible massacre was commenced, in which none were spared but such of the females as were young and beautiful, and fitted to grace the harems of the conquerors.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Arabs	Arab	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	scoured	scour	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	streets	street	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	11	punct	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	horrible	horrible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	massacre	massacre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj:pass	_	_
10	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux:pass	_	_
11	commenced	commence	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	17	obl	_	_
15	none	none	PRON	NN	PronType=Neg	17	nsubj:pass	_	_
16	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux:pass	_	_
17	spared	spare	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	parataxis	_	_
18	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
19	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	25	case	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	females	female	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	_
23	as	as	ADP	IN	_	19	fixed	_	_
24	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
25	young	young	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	conj	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
27	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	fitted	fit	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	parataxis	_	_
31	to	to	PART	TO	_	32	mark	_	_
32	grace	grace	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	30	xcomp	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	harems	harem	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	obj	_	_
35	of	of	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	conquerors	conqueror	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	34	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **scour** | past | the Arabs | the streets |  |  |  |  | vn wipe\_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent street=Source |
| 2 | **commence** | past · passive |  | a horrible massacre |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |
| 3 | **spare** | past · passive |  | none |  |  |  | which *obl* | vn bill-54.5 «NP V NP NP.asset»: subject=Asset |
| 4 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | young *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **be** |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **fit** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **grace** | to-infinitive |  | the harems of the conquerors |  |  |  |  | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme harem=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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