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title: The eyes of Muza kindled with joy at finding Abdalasis thus ambitiou… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: The eyes of Muza kindled with joy at finding Abdalasis thus ambitious of renown in arms. Who acts: eyes. 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 tree and the pragmatics of every clau
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Expedition of Abdalasis Against Seville and the “land of Tadmir.”, sentence 9

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The eyes of Muza kindled with joy at finding Abdalasis thus ambitious of renown in arms.

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**Who acts:** eyes · **What happens:** kindle, find · **To what, where:** Abdalasis

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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 (eyes), 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:pg77685:31:9
# text = The eyes of Muza kindled with joy at finding Abdalasis thus ambitious of renown in arms.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Muza	Muza	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	kindled	kindle	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	joy	joy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
8	at	at	SCONJ	IN	_	9	mark	_	_
9	finding	find	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
10	Abdalasis	Abdalasis	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
11	thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	ambitious	ambitious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	xcomp	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	renown	renown	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	arms	arm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **kindle** | past | the eyes of Muza |  |  |  |  | with joy | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with joy=Instrument |
| 2 | **find** | gerund | the eyes of Muza *not said here* | Abdalasis |  |  |  | ambitious *property* | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent abdalasis=Topic |

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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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