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title: While these events were happening in Syria, the youthful Abdalasis,… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: While these events were happening in Syria, the youthful Abdalasis, the son of Muza, remained as emir or governor of Spain. Who acts: events. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Conduct of Abdalasis As Emir of Spain., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of 
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Conduct of Abdalasis As Emir of Spain., sentence 1

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While these events were happening in Syria, the youthful Abdalasis, the son of Muza, remained as emir or governor of Spain.

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**Who acts:** events · **What happens:** happen, remain · **To what, where:** Syria, youthful Abdalasis

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This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Conduct of Abdalasis As Emir of Spain.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (events), 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:pg77685:36:1
# text = While these events were happening in Syria, the youthful Abdalasis, the son of Muza, remained as emir or governor of Spain.
1	While	while	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
2	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
3	events	event	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
4	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
5	happening	happen	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	18	advcl	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	Syria	Syria	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	youthful	youthful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	Abdalasis	Abdalasis	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nsubj:pass	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	appos	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	Muza	Muza	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	remained	remain	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
19	as	as	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	emir	emir	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
21	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	governor	governor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	Spain	Spain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **happen** | past · progressive | this events |  |  | Syria |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in syria=Location |
| 2 | **remain** | participle · passive |  | the youthful Abdalasis |  |  |  | as emir or governor of Spain | vn seem-109-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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