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title: During his illness, tidings were brought that Muza ben Nozier had en… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: During his illness, tidings were brought that Muza ben Nozier had entered Syria with a vast cavalcade, bearing all the riches and trophies gained in the western conquests. Who acts: riches. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Chapter XIV., with its dependency tree 
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter XIV., sentence 3

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During his illness, tidings were brought that Muza ben Nozier had entered Syria with a vast cavalcade, bearing all the riches and trophies gained in the western conquests.

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**Who acts:** riches · **What happens:** bring, enter, bear, gain · **To what, where:** tidings, Muza ben

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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 (riches), 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:pg77685:35:3
# text = During his illness, tidings were brought that Muza ben Nozier had entered Syria with a vast cavalcade, bearing all the riches and trophies gained in the western conquests.
1	During	during	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	illness	illness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	tidings	tiding	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
6	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	brought	bring	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
8	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
9	Muza	Muza	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	compound	_	_
10	ben	ben	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj:pass	_	_
11	Nozier	Nozier	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	appos	_	_
12	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	entered	enter	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	advcl	_	_
14	Syria	Syria	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
15	with	with	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	vast	vast	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	cavalcade	cavalcade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	bearing	bear	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	conj	_	_
21	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	23	det:predet	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	riches	rich	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nsubj	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	trophies	trophy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	conj	_	_
26	gained	gain	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	parataxis	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	western	western	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	conquests	conquest	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bring** | past · passive |  | tidings |  |  | during CALIPH's illness |  | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: subject=Theme |
| 2 | **enter** | past · perfect · passive |  | Muza ben |  |  |  | with a vast cavalcade; Syria *obj* | tree rules |
| 3 | **bear** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **gain** | past | all riches and trophies |  |  |  |  | in the western conquests | vn calibratable\_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient in conquest=Attribute |

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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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