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title: He now confided entirely in his Arabian troops, and in the Moorish s… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: He now confided entirely in his Arabian troops, and in the Moorish squadrons from Africa, and with their aid he completed the conquest of Lusitania to the ultimate parts of the Algarbe, or west, even to the shores of the great Ocean sea. Who acts: Abdalasis. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Conduct of Abdalasis As Emir of Spain., sentence 25

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He now confided entirely in his Arabian troops, and in the Moorish squadrons from Africa, and with their aid he completed the conquest of Lusitania to the ultimate parts of the Algarbe, or west, even to the shores of the great Ocean sea.

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**Who acts:** Abdalasis · **What happens:** confide, complete · **To what, where:** Arabian troops, conquest

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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:pg77685:36:25
# text = He now confided entirely in his Arabian troops, and in the Moorish squadrons from Africa, and with their aid he completed the conquest of Lusitania to the ultimate parts of the Algarbe, or west, even to the shores of the great Ocean sea.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
3	confided	confide	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	entirely	entirely	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	8	nmod:poss	_	_
7	Arabian	Arabian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	troops	troops	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
11	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	Moorish	moorish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	squadrons	squadron	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
15	from	from	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	Africa	Africa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
19	with	with	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	aid	aid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obl	_	_
22	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	nsubj	_	_
23	completed	complete	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	conquest	conquest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	obj	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	Lusitania	Lusitania	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	_
28	to	to	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	ultimate	ultimate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
31	parts	part	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	Algarbe	Algarbe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	37	punct	_	_
36	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
37	west	west	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
39	even	even	ADV	RB	_	42	advmod	_	_
40	to	to	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	shores	shore	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl	_	_
43	of	of	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
45	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	47	amod	_	_
46	Ocean	Ocean	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	47	compound	_	_
47	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **confide** *speech: other* | past | Abdalasis |  |  | Abdalasis's Arabian troops | now | in the Moorish squadrons from Africa; entirely *property* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **complete** | past | Abdalasis | the conquest of Lusitania |  |  |  | with employers's aid; to the ultimate parts of the Algarbe; to the shores of the great Ocean sea; west *property* | vn complete-55.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent conquest=Eventuality |

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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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