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title: Abdalasis was pleased with the hardihood of the commander of the pla… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: Abdalasis was pleased with the hardihood of the commander of the place in thus venturing personally into his power, and entertained the veteran with still greater honour. Who acts: Abdalasis, place. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Expedition of Abdalasis Agains
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Expedition of Abdalasis Against Seville and the “land of Tadmir.”, sentence 85

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Abdalasis was pleased with the hardihood of the commander of the place in thus venturing personally into his power, and entertained the veteran with still greater honour.

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**Who acts:** Abdalasis, place · **What happens:** be, venture in, entertain · **To what, where:** power, veteran

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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, place), 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:pg77685:31:85
# text = Abdalasis was pleased with the hardihood of the commander of the place in thus venturing personally into his power, and entertained the veteran with still greater honour.
1	Abdalasis	Abdalasis	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	pleased	pleased	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	hardihood	hardihood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	commander	commander	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
13	in	in	ADP	RP	_	15	compound:prt	_	_
14	thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	venturing	venture	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	acl:relcl	_	_
16	personally	personally	ADV	RB	_	19	advmod	_	_
17	into	into	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	power	power	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	entertained	entertain	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	veteran	veteran	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
25	with	with	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	still	still	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	greater	great	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	28	amod	_	_
28	honour	honour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Abdalasis |  |  |  |  | with the hardihood of the commander of the place; pleased *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **venture in** | gerund | the place *not said here* |  |  | Abdalasis's power |  | thus *property* | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **entertain** | past | Abdalasis *not said here* | the veteran |  |  |  | with greater honour | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus veteran=Experiencer |

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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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