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title: He daily became more and more enamoured; and Exilona gradually cease… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: He daily became more and more enamoured; and Exilona gradually ceased to weep, and began to listen with secret pleasure to the words of her Arab lover. Who acts: Abdalasis, Exilona. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Loves of Abdalasis and Exilona., with its depen
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Loves of Abdalasis and Exilona., sentence 31

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He daily became more and more enamoured; and Exilona gradually ceased to weep, and began to listen with secret pleasure to the words of her Arab lover.

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**Who acts:** Abdalasis, Exilona · **What happens:** become, cease, weep, begin, listen, word · **To what, where:** Arab lover

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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 (Abdalasis, Exilona), 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:pg77685:37:31
# text = He daily became more and more enamoured; and Exilona gradually ceased to weep, and began to listen with secret pleasure to the words of her Arab lover.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	daily	daily	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
3	became	become	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	3	advmod	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
6	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	7	advmod	_	_
7	enamoured	enamoured	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	Exilona	Exilona	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
11	gradually	gradually	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	ceased	cease	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	weep	weep	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	listen	listen	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	xcomp	_	_
20	with	with	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	secret	secret	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	pleasure	pleasure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
23	to	to	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
28	Arab	Arab	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
29	lover	lover	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **become** | past | Abdalasis |  |  |  |  | daily *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **cease** | past | Exilona |  |  |  |  | gradually *property* | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Affector clause=Eventuality |
| 3 | **weep** | to-infinitive | Exilona *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **begin** | past | Exilona *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 5 | **listen** | to-infinitive | Exilona *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with secret pleasure; to the words of Exilona's Arab lover | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to word=Theme |
| 6 | **word** |  |  | Exilona's Arab lover |  |  |  |  | nom word «communication 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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