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title: The renegado Magued cut off his head and tied it to the tail of his… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: The renegado Magued cut off his head and tied it to the tail of his horse, and repaired with this savage trophy to the tent of Muza; but the hostility of the Arab general was of a less malignant kind. Who acts: renegado, hostility. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irvin
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Muza Besieges the City of Merida., sentence 36

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The renegado Magued cut off his head and tied it to the tail of his horse, and repaired with this savage trophy to the tent of Muza; but the hostility of the Arab general was of a less malignant kind.

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**Who acts:** renegado, hostility · **What happens:** cut off, tie, repair, be · **To what, where:** head

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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 (renegado, hostility), 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:pg77685:30:36
# text = The renegado Magued cut off his head and tied it to the tail of his horse, and repaired with this savage trophy to the tent of Muza; but the hostility of the Arab general was of a less malignant kind.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	renegado	renegado	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	Magued	Magued	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
4	cut	cut	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	off	off	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	tied	tie	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
10	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	tail	tail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	repaired	repair	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
20	with	with	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	23	det	_	_
22	savage	savage	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	trophy	trophy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
24	to	to	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	tent	tent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	Muza	Muza	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	42	punct	_	_
30	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	hostility	hostility	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	nsubj	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
35	Arab	Arab	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	general	general	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nmod	_	_
37	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	42	cop	_	_
38	of	of	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
39	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
40	less	less	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	41	advmod	_	_
41	malignant	malignant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	amod	_	_
42	kind	kind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **cut off** | past | the renegado | renegado's head |  |  |  |  | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector head=Eventuality |
| 2 | **tie** | past | the renegado *not said here* | head |  |  |  | to the tail of renegado's horse | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent it=Patient to tail=Co-Patient |
| 3 | **repair** | participle | the renegado *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with this savage trophy to the tent of Muza | vn remedy-45.7 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with trophy=Instrument |
| 4 | **is** | past | the hostility of the Arab general |  |  |  |  | of a malignant kind | tree rules |

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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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