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title: The veteran Muza, now that the siege of Merida was at an end, was me… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: The veteran Muza, now that the siege of Merida was at an end, was meditating the recapture and punishment of Seville at the very time when Abdalasis addressed him. Who acts: siege, veteran, Abdalasis. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Expedition of Abdalasis Agai
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Expedition of Abdalasis Against Seville and the “land of Tadmir.”, sentence 17

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The veteran Muza, now that the siege of Merida was at an end, was meditating the recapture and punishment of Seville at the very time when Abdalasis addressed him.

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**Who acts:** siege, veteran, Abdalasis · **What happens:** be, meditate, address, punish · **To what, where:** end, recapture, Seville

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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 (siege, veteran, 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:pg77685:31:17
# text = The veteran Muza, now that the siege of Merida was at an end, was meditating the recapture and punishment of Seville at the very time when Abdalasis addressed him.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	veteran	veteran	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
3	Muza	Muza	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
5	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	14	advmod	_	_
6	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	siege	siege	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	Merida	Merida	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
11	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
12	at	at	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
16	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	meditating	meditate	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	recapture	recapture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	punishment	punishment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	Seville	Seville	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
24	at	at	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	very	very	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
28	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	30	advmod	_	_
29	Abdalasis	Abdalasis	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
30	addressed	address	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	advcl	_	_
31	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	30	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	17	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the siege of Merida |  |  |  | at a end; now |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **meditate** | past · progressive | the veteran | the recapture and punishment of Seville |  |  | time |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **address** | past | Abdalasis |  | Seville |  |  |  | vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Destination |
| 4 | **punish** |  |  | Seville |  |  |  |  | nom punishment «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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