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title: MUZA ARRIVES AT DAMASCUS.—HIS INTERVIEW WITH THE CALIPH.—THE TABLE O… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: MUZA ARRIVES AT DAMASCUS.—HIS INTERVIEW WITH THE CALIPH.—THE TABLE OF SOLOMON.—A RIGOROUS SENTENCE. Who acts: MUZA. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Chapter XIV., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter XIV., sentence 1

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MUZA ARRIVES AT DAMASCUS.—HIS INTERVIEW WITH THE CALIPH.—THE TABLE OF SOLOMON.—A RIGOROUS SENTENCE.

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**Who acts:** MUZA · **What happens:** arrive, interview · **To what, where:** INTERVIEW, DAMASCUS

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This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Chapter XIV.. 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:pg77685:35:1
# text = MUZA ARRIVES AT DAMASCUS.—HIS INTERVIEW WITH THE CALIPH.—THE TABLE OF SOLOMON.—A RIGOROUS SENTENCE.
1	MUZA	MUZA	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	ARRIVES	arrive	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	AT	at	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	DAMASCUS	DAMASCUS	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	HIS	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
8	INTERVIEW	interview	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
9	WITH	with	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	THE	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	CALIPH	caliph	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	THE	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	TABLE	table	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	_
16	OF	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	SOLOMON	solomon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	RIGOROUS	rigorous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	SENTENCE	sentence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **arrive** | present | MUZA | MUZA's INTERVIEW with the CALIPH and the TABLE of SOLOMON and a RIGOROUS SENTENCE |  | DAMASCUS |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **interview** |  | MUZA |  |  |  |  | with the CALIPH | nom interview «communication intransitive»: poss=agent with=obl |

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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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