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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter XIV., sentence 7

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Muza entered the city in a kind of triumph, with a long train of horses and mules and camels laden with treasure, and with the four hundred sons of Gothic nobles as hostages, each decorated with a diadem and a girdle of gold; and with one hundred Christian damsels, whose beauty dazzled all beholders.

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**Who acts:** Muza, horses, Gothic nobles, beauty · **What happens:** enter, laden, decorate, dazzle · **To what, where:** city, kind, long train, each, beholders

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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, horses, Gothic nobles, beauty), 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:pg77685:35:7
# text = Muza entered the city in a kind of triumph, with a long train of horses and mules and camels laden with treasure, and with the four hundred sons of Gothic nobles as hostages, each decorated with a diadem and a girdle of gold; and with one hundred Christian damsels, whose beauty dazzled all beholders.
1	Muza	Muza	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	entered	enter	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	kind	kind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	triumph	triumph	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	train	train	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	horses	horse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nsubj	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	mules	mule	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	conj	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	camels	camel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	conj	_	_
21	laden	laden	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	acl:relcl	_	_
22	with	with	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	treasure	treasure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
26	with	with	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
28	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	29	compound	_	_
29	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	30	nummod	_	_
30	sons	son	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
31	of	of	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	Gothic	gothic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	nobles	noble	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	nmod	_	_
34	as	as	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	hostages	hostage	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	38	punct	_	_
37	each	each	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	38	nsubj:pass	_	_
38	decorated	decorate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	33	acl	_	_
39	with	with	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	diadem	diadem	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obl	_	_
42	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	44	cc	_	_
43	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
44	girdle	girdle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	conj	_	_
45	of	of	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
46	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	44	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
47	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	57	punct	_	_
48	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	57	cc	_	_
49	with	with	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
50	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	51	compound	_	_
51	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	53	nummod	_	_
52	Christian	Christian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	53	amod	_	_
53	damsels	damsel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	57	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	57	punct	_	_
55	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	56	nmod:poss	_	_
56	beauty	beauty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	57	nsubj	_	_
57	dazzled	dazzle	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
58	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	59	det	_	_
59	beholders	beholder	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	57	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
60	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **enter** | past | Muza | the city |  | a kind of triumph |  | with a long train; with the hundred sons of Gothic nobles as hostages | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme city=Destination |
| 2 | **laden** | present | horses and mules and camels | a long train *not said here* |  |  |  | with treasure | tree rules |
| 3 | **decorate** | participle · passive | Gothic nobles as hostages *not said here* | each |  |  |  | with a diadem and a girdle of gold | vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with diadem=Theme |
| 4 | **dazzle** | past | beauty | all beholders |  |  |  | with hundred Christian damsels | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus beholder=Experiencer |

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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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