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title: Abdalasis had fixed his seat of government at Seville, as permitting… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: Abdalasis had fixed his seat of government at Seville, as permitting easy and frequent communications with the coast of Africa. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Loves of Abdalasis and Exilona., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Loves of Abdalasis and Exilona., sentence 1

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Abdalasis had fixed his seat of government at Seville, as permitting easy and frequent communications with the coast of Africa.

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**What happens:** fix, permit · **To what, where:** Abdalasis, Seville, easy communications

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This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Loves of Abdalasis and Exilona.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg77685:37:1
# text = Abdalasis had fixed his seat of government at Seville, as permitting easy and frequent communications with the coast of Africa.
1	Abdalasis	Abdalasis	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	fixed	fix	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	seat	seat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	government	government	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
8	at	at	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	Seville	Seville	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	12	mark	_	_
12	permitting	permit	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
13	easy	easy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	frequent	frequent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	conj	_	_
16	communications	communication	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	_
17	with	with	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	coast	coast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	Africa	Africa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fix** | past · perfect · passive |  | Abdalasis |  | Seville |  | Abdalasis's seat of government *obj* | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: subject=Beneficiary seat=Product |
| 2 | **permit** | gerund |  | easy communications |  |  |  | with the coast of Africa | vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent communication=Theme |

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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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