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title: Muza, however, paid no attention to the messages of Suleiman, but ra… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: Muza, however, paid no attention to the messages of Suleiman, but rather hastened his march to arrive before the death of the caliph. Who acts: Muza, caliph. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Chapter XIV., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clau
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter XIV., sentence 5

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Muza, however, paid no attention to the messages of Suleiman, but rather hastened his march to arrive before the death of the caliph.

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**Who acts:** Muza, caliph · **What happens:** pay, hasten, arrive, die · **To what, where:** attention, march

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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, 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:pg77685:35:5
# text = Muza, however, paid no attention to the messages of Suleiman, but rather hastened his march to arrive before the death of the caliph.
1	Muza	Muza	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	however	however	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	paid	pay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	7	det	_	_
7	attention	attention	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	messages	message	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	Suleiman	Suleiman	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	rather	rather	ADV	RB	_	16	advmod	_	_
16	hastened	hasten	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
17	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	march	march	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	arrive	arrive	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	advcl	_	_
21	before	before	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
24	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	caliph	caliph	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pay** | past | Muza | no attention |  |  |  | to the messages of Suleiman; however *property* | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent attention=Asset |
| 2 | **hasten** | past | Muza *not said here* | Suleiman's march |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent march=Patient |
| 3 | **arrive** | to-infinitive | Muza *not said here* |  |  |  | before the death of the caliph |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **die** |  | the caliph |  |  |  |  |  | nom death «event intransitive»: of=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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