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title: Muza listened to them with compassion, and granted their prayer; and… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: Muza listened to them with compassion, and granted their prayer; and the only tribute he exacted was three measures of wheat and three of barley from each house or family. Who acts: Muza, only tribute, men. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Muza Marches Against t
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Muza Marches Against the City of Seville., sentence 18

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Muza listened to them with compassion, and granted their prayer; and the only tribute he exacted was three measures of wheat and three of barley from each house or family.

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**Who acts:** Muza, only tribute, men · **What happens:** listen, grant, exact, be, pray · **To what, where:** men, prayer, only tribute, three measures

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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, only tribute, men), 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:pg77685:29:18
# text = Muza listened to them with compassion, and granted their prayer; and the only tribute he exacted was three measures of wheat and three of barley from each house or family.
1	Muza	Muza	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	listened	listen	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	to	to	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	obl	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	compassion	compassion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	granted	grant	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
10	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	prayer	prayer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	only	only	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	tribute	tribute	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
17	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	exacted	exact	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	acl:relcl	_	_
19	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	cop	_	_
20	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	21	nummod	_	_
21	measures	measure	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	wheat	wheat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	21	conj	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	barley	barley	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	_
28	from	from	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	30	det	_	_
30	house	house	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	_
31	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	family	family	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **listen** | past | Muza |  | men *= man* |  |  | with compassion | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to they=Theme |
| 2 | **grant** | past | Muza *not said here* | men's prayer |  |  |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent prayer=Theme |
| 3 | **exact** | past | Muza | the only tribute *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tribute=Theme |
| 4 | **is a** | past | the only tribute | three measures |  |  |  | of wheat; three of barley from each house or family *conj* | tree rules |
| 5 | **pray** |  | men *= man* |  |  |  |  |  | nom prayer «act intransitive»: poss=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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