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title: The caliph was still more exasperated at his repining, and stripped… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: The caliph was still more exasperated at his repining, and stripped him of his commands; confiscated his effects; fined him two hundred thousand pesants of gold, and ordered that he should be scourged and exposed to the noontide sun, and afterwards thrown into prison. Who acts: CALIPH. A sentence of
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter XIV., sentence 38

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The caliph was still more exasperated at his repining, and stripped him of his commands; confiscated his effects; fined him two hundred thousand pesants of gold, and ordered that he should be scourged and exposed to the noontide sun, and afterwards thrown into prison.

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**Who acts:** CALIPH · **What happens:** exasperate, strip, confiscate, fine, order, scourge · **To what, where:** caliph, repining, effects, noontide sun, prison · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (CALIPH), 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:pg77685:35:38
# text = The caliph was still more exasperated at his repining, and stripped him of his commands; confiscated his effects; fined him two hundred thousand pesants of gold, and ordered that he should be scourged and exposed to the noontide sun, and afterwards thrown into prison.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	caliph	caliph	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
4	still	still	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
5	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	6	advmod	_	_
6	exasperated	exasperate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	at	at	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	repining	repining	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	stripped	strip	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
13	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	commands	command	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
18	confiscated	confiscate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	advcl	_	_
19	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	effects	effect	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	_
22	fined	fine	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
23	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obj	_	_
24	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	25	compound	_	_
25	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	26	compound	_	_
26	thousand	thousand	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	27	nummod	_	_
27	pesants	pesant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obj	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	ordered	order	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	parataxis	_	_
33	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	37	mark	_	_
34	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	37	nsubj	_	_
35	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	37	aux	_	_
36	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	37	aux:pass	_	_
37	scourged	scourge	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	32	ccomp	_	_
38	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	39	cc	_	_
39	exposed	expose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	37	conj	_	_
40	to	to	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
42	noontide	noontide	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	compound	_	_
43	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
45	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	47	cc	_	_
46	afterwards	afterwards	ADV	RB	_	47	advmod	_	_
47	thrown	throw	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	conj	_	_
48	into	into	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
49	prison	prison	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
50	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **exasperate** | past · passive |  | the caliph |  | CALIPH's repining | still |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer |
| 2 | **strip** | past |  | CALIPH |  |  |  | of CALIPH's commands | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent he=Theme of command=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **confiscate** | participle |  | CALIPH's effects |  |  |  |  | vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent effect=Theme |
| 4 | **fine** | past |  |  | CALIPH |  |  | thousand pesants of gold *obj* | vn bill-54.5-1 «NP V NP NP.asset»: agent=Agent he=Recipient pesant=Asset |
| 5 | **order** | past |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 6 | **scourge** | should · passive |  | CALIPH |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **expose** | participle |  |  | the noontide sun |  |  |  | vn reflexive\_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to sun=Recipient |
| 8 | **throw** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | into prison *result*; afterwards *property* | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Causer into prison=Result |
| 9 | **command** |  | CALIPH |  |  |  |  |  | nom command «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
| 10 | **effect** |  | CALIPH |  |  |  |  |  | nom effect «phenomenon 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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