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title: Abdalasis, the son of Muza, arrived from Africa, at the head of his… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: Abdalasis, the son of Muza, arrived from Africa, at the head of his reinforcement: he brought seven thousand horsemen, and a host of Barbary archers; and made a glorious display as he marched into the camp. Who acts: Abdalasis. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, M
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Muza Besieges the City of Merida., sentence 53

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Abdalasis, the son of Muza, arrived from Africa, at the head of his reinforcement: he brought seven thousand horsemen, and a host of Barbary archers; and made a glorious display as he marched into the camp.

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**Who acts:** Abdalasis · **What happens:** arrive, bring, make, march, reinforce · **To what, where:** Africa, thousand horsemen, glorious display, 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 (Abdalasis), 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:pg77685:30:53
# text = Abdalasis, the son of Muza, arrived from Africa, at the head of his reinforcement: he brought seven thousand horsemen, and a host of Barbary archers; and made a glorious display as he marched into the camp.
1	Abdalasis	Abdalasis	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	Muza	Muza	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
8	arrived	arrive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	from	from	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Africa	Africa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	at	at	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	reinforcement	reinforcement	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
19	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj	_	_
20	brought	bring	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
21	seven	seven	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	22	compound	_	_
22	thousand	thousand	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	23	nummod	_	_
23	horsemen	horseman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	host	host	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	Barbary	barbary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	archers	archer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	33	punct	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
33	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
34	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
35	glorious	glorious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	display	display	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obj	_	_
37	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	39	mark	_	_
38	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	39	nsubj	_	_
39	marched	march	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	33	advcl	_	_
40	into	into	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	camp	camp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **arrive** | past | Abdalasis |  |  | Africa |  | the head of Abdalasis's reinforcement *conj* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from africa=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **bring** | past | Abdalasis | thousand horsemen |  |  |  | a host of Barbary archers *conj* | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent horseman=Theme |
| 3 | **make** | past | Abdalasis *not said here* | a glorious display |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset display=Product |
| 4 | **march** | past | Abdalasis |  |  |  |  | into the camp *result* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into camp=Result |
| 5 | **reinforce** |  | Abdalasis |  |  |  |  |  | nom reinforcement «act transitive»: 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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