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title: “Muza, on the contrary,” said they, “is grasping and insatiable: he… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: “Muza, on the contrary,” said they, “is grasping and insatiable: he levies intolerable contributions, and collects immense treasure, but sweeps it all into his own coffers.” Who acts: Muza, TARIC. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Chapter XIII., with its dependen
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter XIII., sentence 10

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“Muza, on the contrary,” said they, “is grasping and insatiable: he levies intolerable contributions, and collects immense treasure, but sweeps it all into his own coffers.”

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**Who acts:** Muza, TARIC · **What happens:** say, grasp, levy, collect, sweep · **To what, where:** intolerable contributions, immense treasure, treasure, own coffers · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Chapter XIII.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Muza, TARIC), 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:pg77685:34:10
# text = “Muza, on the contrary,” said they, “is grasping and insatiable: he levies intolerable contributions, and collects immense treasure, but sweeps it all into his own coffers.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Muza	Muza	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	contrary	contrary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
9	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	grasping	grasp	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	ccomp	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	insatiable	insatiable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
18	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	levies	levy	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	ccomp	_	_
20	intolerable	intolerable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	contributions	contribution	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	collects	collect	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	conj	_	_
25	immense	immense	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	treasure	treasure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
28	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
29	sweeps	sweep	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	19	conj	_	_
30	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	obj	_	_
31	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	30	det	_	_
32	into	into	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
33	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	35	nmod:poss	_	_
34	own	own	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	coffers	coffer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	19	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	19	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | Muza |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **grasp** *in a quote* | present · progressive | Muza |  |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **levy** *in a quote* | present | TARIC | intolerable contributions |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **collect** *in a quote* | present | TARIC *not said here* | immense treasure |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent treasure=Theme |
| 5 | **sweep** *in a quote* | present | TARIC *not said here* | treasure |  | TARIC's own coffers |  |  | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme into coffer=Destination |

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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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