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title: While Muza was thus disposing of his commands, and moving cumbrously… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: While Muza was thus disposing of his commands, and moving cumbrously under the weight of wealth, the veteran Taric was more speedy and alert in obeying the summons of the caliph. Who acts: Muza, veteran, Cadiz. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Chapter XIII., wit
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter XIII., sentence 29

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While Muza was thus disposing of his commands, and moving cumbrously under the weight of wealth, the veteran Taric was more speedy and alert in obeying the summons of the caliph.

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**Who acts:** Muza, veteran, Cadiz · **What happens:** dispose, move, be, obey, command · **To what, where:** weight, summons · **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, veteran, Cadiz), 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:pg77685:34:29
# text = While Muza was thus disposing of his commands, and moving cumbrously under the weight of wealth, the veteran Taric was more speedy and alert in obeying the summons of the caliph.
1	While	while	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
2	Muza	Muza	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	disposing	dispose	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	24	advcl	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	commands	command	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	moving	move	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	parataxis	_	_
12	cumbrously	cumbrously	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
13	under	under	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	weight	weight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	wealth	wealth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	veteran	veteran	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
21	Taric	Taric	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	appos	_	_
22	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	cop	_	_
23	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	24	advmod	_	_
24	speedy	speedy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	alert	alert	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	conj	_	_
27	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
28	obeying	obey	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	24	advcl	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	summons	summon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obj	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	caliph	caliph	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	24	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 | **dispose** | past · progressive | Muza |  |  |  |  | of Cadiz's commands; thus *property* | vn addict-96 «NP V NP PP.Theme»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **move** | gerund |  |  |  | the weight of wealth |  | cumbrously *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme under weight=Trajectory |
| 3 | **is** | past | the veteran |  |  |  |  | speedy *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **be** *speech: other* |  | the veteran *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **obey** | gerund | the veteran *not said here* | the summons of the caliph |  |  |  |  | vn abide\_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent summon=Theme |
| 6 | **command** |  | Cadiz |  |  |  |  |  | nom command «communication transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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