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title: MUZA PROSECUTES THE SCHEME OF CONQUEST.—SIEGE OF SARAGOSSA.—COMPLETE… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: MUZA PROSECUTES THE SCHEME OF CONQUEST.—SIEGE OF SARAGOSSA.—COMPLETE SUBJUGATION OF SPAIN. Who acts: MUZA. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Chapter XII., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter XII., sentence 1

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MUZA PROSECUTES THE SCHEME OF CONQUEST.—SIEGE OF SARAGOSSA.—COMPLETE SUBJUGATION OF SPAIN.

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**Who acts:** MUZA · **What happens:** prosecute, scheme, subjugate · **To what, where:** SCHEME, CONQUEST, SPAIN

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This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Chapter XII.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (MUZA), 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:pg77685:33:1
# text = MUZA PROSECUTES THE SCHEME OF CONQUEST.—SIEGE OF SARAGOSSA.—COMPLETE SUBJUGATION OF SPAIN.
1	MUZA	MUZA	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	PROSECUTES	prosecute	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	THE	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	SCHEME	scheme	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	OF	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	CONQUEST	CONQUEST	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	SIEGE	siege	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	parataxis	_	_
10	OF	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	SARAGOSSA	SARAGOSSA	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	COMPLETE	complete	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	SUBJUGATION	subjugation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
16	OF	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	SPAIN	spain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **prosecute** | present | MUZA | the SCHEME of CONQUEST |  |  |  | SIEGE of SARAGOSSA and COMPLETE SUBJUGATION of SPAIN *parataxis* | vn prosecute-33.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent scheme=Patient |
| 2 | **scheme** |  |  | CONQUEST |  |  |  |  | nom scheme «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
| 3 | **subjugate** |  |  | SPAIN |  |  |  |  | nom subjugation «state 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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