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title: Abdalasis was well pleased to get so powerful a place upon such easy… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: Abdalasis was well pleased to get so powerful a place upon such easy terms, but stipulated that the garrison should lay down their arms. Who acts: Abdalasis, garrison. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Expedition of Abdalasis Against Seville and the “land of Tadm
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Expedition of Abdalasis Against Seville and the “land of Tadmir.”, sentence 81

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Abdalasis was well pleased to get so powerful a place upon such easy terms, but stipulated that the garrison should lay down their arms.

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**Who acts:** Abdalasis, garrison · **What happens:** be, get, stipulate, lay down · **To what, where:** powerful place, arms

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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 (Abdalasis, garrison), 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:pg77685:31:81
# text = Abdalasis was well pleased to get so powerful a place upon such easy terms, but stipulated that the garrison should lay down their arms.
1	Abdalasis	Abdalasis	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	4	advmod	_	_
4	pleased	pleased	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	get	get	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	advcl	_	_
7	so	so	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	powerful	powerful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
11	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
13	easy	easy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	terms	term	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	stipulated	stipulate	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
18	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	garrison	garrison	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
21	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	22	aux	_	_
22	lay	lay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	advcl	_	_
23	down	down	ADP	RP	_	22	compound:prt	_	_
24	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
25	arms	arm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Abdalasis |  |  |  |  | pleased, well *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **get** | to-infinitive | Abdalasis *not said here* | a powerful place |  |  |  | upon such easy terms | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer place=Stimulus |
| 3 | **stipulate** | past | Abdalasis *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **lay down** | should | the garrison | terms's arms |  |  |  |  | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arm=Result |

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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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