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title: After the capture of Merida, Muza gave a grand banquet to his captai… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: After the capture of Merida, Muza gave a grand banquet to his captains and distinguished warriors in that magnificent city. Who acts: Muza. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Expedition of Abdalasis Against Seville and the “land of Tadmir.”, with its dependency tr
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Expedition of Abdalasis Against Seville and the “land of Tadmir.”, sentence 1

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After the capture of Merida, Muza gave a grand banquet to his captains and distinguished warriors in that magnificent city.

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**Who acts:** Muza · **What happens:** give, capture · **To what, where:** grand banquet, captains, magnificent city, Merida

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This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Expedition of Abdalasis Against Seville and the “land of Tadmir.”. 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:pg77685:31:1
# text = After the capture of Merida, Muza gave a grand banquet to his captains and distinguished warriors in that magnificent city.
1	After	after	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	capture	capture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Merida	Merida	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
7	Muza	Muza	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
8	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	grand	grand	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	banquet	banquet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	captains	captain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	distinguished	distinguished	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	warriors	warrior	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	conj	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	21	det	_	_
20	magnificent	magnificent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | past | Muza | a grand banquet | Muza's captains and distinguished warriors | that magnificent city | after the capture of Merida |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent banquet=Theme to captain=Recipient |
| 2 | **capture** |  |  | Merida |  |  |  |  | nom capture «act 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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