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title: After the capture of Carmona, Muza descended into a noble plain, cov… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: After the capture of Carmona, Muza descended into a noble plain, covered with fields of grain, with orchards and gardens, through which glided the soft-flowing Guadalquivir. Who acts: Muza. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Muza Marches Against the City of Sevill
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Muza Marches Against the City of Seville., sentence 1

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After the capture of Carmona, Muza descended into a noble plain, covered with fields of grain, with orchards and gardens, through which glided the soft-flowing Guadalquivir.

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**Who acts:** Muza · **What happens:** descend, cover, glide, flow, capture · **To what, where:** noble plain, flowing Guadalquivir, Carmona

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This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Muza Marches Against the City of Seville.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Muza), 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:pg77685:29:1
# text = After the capture of Carmona, Muza descended into a noble plain, covered with fields of grain, with orchards and gardens, through which glided the soft-flowing Guadalquivir.
1	After	after	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	capture	capture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Carmona	Carmona	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
7	Muza	Muza	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	descended	descend	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	into	into	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	noble	noble	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	plain	plain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	covered	cover	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	acl	_	_
15	with	with	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	fields	field	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	grain	grain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	with	with	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	orchards	orchard	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	gardens	garden	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	through	through	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	27	nsubj	_	_
27	glided	glide	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
29	soft	soft	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	29	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	flowing	flow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	32	amod	_	_
32	Guadalquivir	Guadalquivir	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **descend** | past | Muza |  |  | a noble plain | after the capture of Carmona | with orchards and gardens | vn meander-47.7-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into plain=Location |
| 2 | **cover** | participle |  | a noble plain *not said here* |  |  |  | with fields of grain | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with field=Theme |
| 3 | **glide** | past |  | the flowing Guadalquivir |  |  |  | which *nsubj* | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent guadalquivir=Agent |
| 4 | **flow** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **capture** |  |  | Carmona |  |  |  |  | nom capture «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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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