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title: One city alone prepared for vigorous defence, the ancient Merida, a… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: One city alone prepared for vigorous defence, the ancient Merida, a place of great extent, uncounted riches, and prodigious strength. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Muza Besieges the City of Merida., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Muza Besieges the City of Merida., sentence 4

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One city alone prepared for vigorous defence, the ancient Merida, a place of great extent, uncounted riches, and prodigious strength.

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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: 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:pg77685:30:4
# text = One city alone prepared for vigorous defence, the ancient Merida, a place of great extent, uncounted riches, and prodigious strength.
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	prepared	prepared	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	vigorous	vigorous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	defence	defence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	ancient	ancient	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	Merida	Merida	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	appos	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	extent	extent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	uncounted	uncounted	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	riches	rich	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
23	prodigious	prodigious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	strength	strength	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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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