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title: When Muza came in sight of this magnificent city, he was struck with… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: When Muza came in sight of this magnificent city, he was struck with admiration. Who acts: Muza. 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 9

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When Muza came in sight of this magnificent city, he was struck with admiration.

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**Who acts:** Muza · **What happens:** come, strike, sight · **To what, where:** sight, Muza, magnificent city

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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), 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:pg77685:30:9
# text = When Muza came in sight of this magnificent city, he was struck with admiration.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	3	advmod	_	_
2	Muza	Muza	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	advcl	_	_
4	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	sight	sight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	9	det	_	_
8	magnificent	magnificent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
11	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
12	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux:pass	_	_
13	struck	strike	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
14	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	admiration	admiration	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **come** | past | Muza |  |  | sight of this magnificent city |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in sight=Location |
| 2 | **strike** | past · passive |  | Muza |  |  |  | with admiration | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with admiration=Instrument |
| 3 | **sight** |  |  | this magnificent city |  |  |  |  | nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient |

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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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