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title: Having succeeded in subduing this rich and fruitful region, and havi… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: Having succeeded in subduing this rich and fruitful region, and having gained great renown for his generosity as well as valour, Abdalasis returned with the chief part of his army to the city of Seville. Who acts: Abdalasis, gained great renown. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Wa
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Expedition of Abdalasis Against Seville and the “land of Tadmir.”, sentence 94

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Having succeeded in subduing this rich and fruitful region, and having gained great renown for his generosity as well as valour, Abdalasis returned with the chief part of his army to the city of Seville.

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**Who acts:** Abdalasis, gained great renown · **What happens:** have, succeed, subdue, gain, return · **To what, where:** gained great renown, rich region

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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, gained great renown), 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:pg77685:31:94
# text = Having succeeded in subduing this rich and fruitful region, and having gained great renown for his generosity as well as valour, Abdalasis returned with the chief part of his army to the city of Seville.
1	Having	have	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	25	advcl	_	_
2	succeeded	succeed	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	xcomp	_	_
3	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
4	subduing	subdue	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
5	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	9	det	_	_
6	rich	rich	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	fruitful	fruitful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	_
9	region	region	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
12	having	have	AUX	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	aux	_	_
13	gained	gain	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	amod	_	_
14	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	renown	renown	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
16	for	for	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	generosity	generosity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
19	as	as	ADV	RB	ExtPos=CCONJ	22	cc	_	_
20	well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	19	fixed	_	_
21	as	as	ADP	IN	_	19	fixed	_	_
22	valour	valour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
24	Abdalasis	Abdalasis	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
25	returned	return	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
26	with	with	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	chief	chief	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
32	army	army	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	_
33	to	to	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nmod	_	_
36	of	of	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	Seville	Seville	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	35	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	25	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | gerund | Abdalasis *not said here* | gained great renown for Abdalasis's generosity as valour |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **succeed** | participle | gained great renown for Abdalasis's generosity as valour *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **subdue** | gerund | gained great renown for Abdalasis's generosity as valour *not said here* | this rich region |  |  |  |  | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent region=Patient |
| 4 | **gain** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
| 5 | **return** | past | Abdalasis |  |  |  |  | with the chief part of Abdalasis's army to the city of Seville | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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