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title: Abdalasis meditated upon this letter; for some part of it seemed to… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: Abdalasis meditated upon this letter; for some part of it seemed to contain a mystery which he could not comprehend. Who acts: Abdalasis. 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 ever
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Conduct of Abdalasis As Emir of Spain., sentence 14

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Abdalasis meditated upon this letter; for some part of it seemed to contain a mystery which he could not comprehend.

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**Who acts:** Abdalasis · **What happens:** meditate, seem, contain, not comprehend · **To what, where:** mystery

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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 (Abdalasis), 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:pg77685:36:14
# text = Abdalasis meditated upon this letter; for some part of it seemed to contain a mystery which he could not comprehend.
1	Abdalasis	Abdalasis	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	meditated	meditate	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	5	det	_	_
5	letter	letter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
7	for	for	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	9	det	_	_
9	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nmod	_	_
12	seemed	seem	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	contain	contain	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	xcomp	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	mystery	mystery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	21	obj	_	_
18	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
19	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
20	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	21	advmod	_	_
21	comprehend	comprehend	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **meditate** | past | Abdalasis |  |  |  |  | upon this letter | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **seem** | past |  |  |  |  |  | for some part of part | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute |
| 3 | **contain** | to-infinitive |  | a mystery |  |  |  |  | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot mystery=Theme |
| 4 | **not** **comprehend** | could | Abdalasis | a mystery |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer which=Stimulus |

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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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