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title: Ayub was silent, but his brow was clouded; and for once Abdalasis pa… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: Ayub was silent, but his brow was clouded; and for once Abdalasis parted in discontent from his counsellor. Who acts: Ayub, Abdalasis. 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 29

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Ayub was silent, but his brow was clouded; and for once Abdalasis parted in discontent from his counsellor.

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**Who acts:** Ayub, Abdalasis · **What happens:** be, cloud, part · **To what, where:** brow, discontent

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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: who acts (Ayub, 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:pg77685:37:29
# text = Ayub was silent, but his brow was clouded; and for once Abdalasis parted in discontent from his counsellor.
1	Ayub	Ayub	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	silent	silent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
5	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
6	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	brow	brow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
8	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux:pass	_	_
9	clouded	cloud	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
12	for	for	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	once	once	ADV	RB	NumForm=Word|NumType=Mult	15	obl	_	_
14	Abdalasis	Abdalasis	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
15	parted	part	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	discontent	discontent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
18	from	from	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	counsellor	counsellor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Ayub |  |  |  |  | silent *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **cloud** | past · passive |  | Ayub's brow |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient |
| 3 | **part** | past | Abdalasis |  |  | discontent |  | from Ayub's counsellor | vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle PP»: agent=Patient from counsellor=Co-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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