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title: The generous feelings of Abdalasis were aroused at the sight of beau… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: The generous feelings of Abdalasis were aroused at the sight of beauty and royalty in tears. 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 17

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The generous feelings of Abdalasis were aroused at the sight of beauty and royalty in tears.

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**What happens:** arouse, sight · **To what, where:** generous feelings, sight, beauty

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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:pg77685:37:17
# text = The generous feelings of Abdalasis were aroused at the sight of beauty and royalty in tears.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	generous	generous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	feelings	feeling	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Abdalasis	Abdalasis	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	aroused	arouse	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
8	at	at	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	sight	sight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	beauty	beauty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	royalty	royalty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	tears	tear	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **arouse** | past · passive |  | the generous feelings of Abdalasis |  | the sight of beauty and royalty in tears |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer |
| 2 | **sight** |  |  | beauty and royalty in tears |  |  |  |  | nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient |

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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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