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title: While Muza was forming his encampment, deserters from the city broug… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: While Muza was forming his encampment, deserters from the city brought him word that a chosen band intended to sally forth at midnight and surprise his camp. Who acts: Muza, deserters. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Muza Besieges the City of Merida., with its 
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Muza Besieges the City of Merida., sentence 15

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While Muza was forming his encampment, deserters from the city brought him word that a chosen band intended to sally forth at midnight and surprise his camp.

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**Who acts:** Muza, deserters · **What happens:** form, bring, choose, intend, sally, surprise · **To what, where:** encampment, word, Muza, camp

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This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Muza Besieges the City of Merida.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Muza, deserters), 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:pg77685:30:15
# text = While Muza was forming his encampment, deserters from the city brought him word that a chosen band intended to sally forth at midnight and surprise his camp.
1	While	while	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	Muza	Muza	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
4	forming	form	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	advcl	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	encampment	encampment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
8	deserters	deserter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
9	from	from	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
12	brought	bring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	word	word	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	19	nsubj:pass	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	chosen	choose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	amod	_	_
18	band	band	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj:pass	_	_
19	intended	intend	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	acl:relcl	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	sally	sally	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	xcomp	_	_
22	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
23	at	at	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	midnight	midnight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	surprise	surprise	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	conj	_	_
27	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	camp	camp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **form** | past · progressive | Muza | Muza's encampment |  |  |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location encampment=Theme |
| 2 | **bring** | past | deserters from the city | word | Muza |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent he=Destination word=Theme |
| 3 | **choose** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **intend** | participle · passive |  | word |  |  |  | a chosen band *nsubj:pass* | tree rules |
| 5 | **sally** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  | midnight | forth *property* | tree rules |
| 6 | **surprise** | infinitive |  | Muza's camp |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus camp=Experiencer |

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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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