---
title: So saying, he bestowed a great part of the spoils upon Taric and the… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: So saying, he bestowed a great part of the spoils upon Taric and the other chiefs, but gave nothing to Muza; and the veteran retired amidst the sneers and murmurs of those present. Who acts: CALIPH, great part, veteran. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Chapter X
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77685/35/30/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Legends of the conquest of Spain](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77685/) / [Chapter XIV.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77685/35/) / 30

# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter XIV., sentence 30

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
So saying, he bestowed a great part of the spoils upon Taric and the other chiefs, but gave nothing to Muza; and the veteran retired amidst the sneers and murmurs of those present.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** CALIPH, great part, veteran · **What happens:** say, bestow, spoil, give, retire, murmur · **To what, where:** great part, nothing, Muza, present · **Speech:** someone speaks here

<!-- .vabout -->
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 (CALIPH, great part, veteran), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

<!-- .note-en -->
**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg77685:35:30
# text = So saying, he bestowed a great part of the spoils upon Taric and the other chiefs, but gave nothing to Muza; and the veteran retired amidst the sneers and murmurs of those present.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	saying	say	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	bestowed	bestow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
9	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	spoils	spoil	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	8	acl:relcl	_	_
12	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	Taric	Taric	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	chiefs	chief	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
19	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
21	nothing	nothing	PRON	NN	Number=Sing|PronType=Neg	20	obj	_	_
22	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	Muza	Muza	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	28	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	veteran	veteran	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nsubj	_	_
28	retired	retire	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
29	amidst	amidst	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	sneers	sneer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	obl	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
33	murmurs	murmur	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	conj	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	36	det	_	_
36	present	present	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | CALIPH *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **bestow** | past | CALIPH | a great part |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **spoil** | present | a great part *not said here* |  |  |  |  | upon Taric and the other chiefs | vn entity\_specific\_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 4 | **give** | past | CALIPH *not said here* | nothing | Muza |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent nothing=Theme to muza=Recipient |
| 5 | **retire** | past | the veteran |  |  |  |  | amidst the sneers and murmurs of that present | vn resign-10.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **murmur** |  |  | that present |  |  |  |  | nom murmur «event transitive»: of=patient |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 29](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77685/35/29/)
- next →: [sentence 31](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77685/35/31/)
- ↑ back to [Chapter XIV.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77685/35/)