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title: When, however, he sought to urge his passion, she recollected the li… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: When, however, he sought to urge his passion, she recollected the light estimation in which her sex was held by the followers of Mahomet, and assumed a countenance grave and severe. Who acts: Abdalasis, Exilona, followers. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Loves 
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Loves of Abdalasis and Exilona., sentence 32

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When, however, he sought to urge his passion, she recollected the light estimation in which her sex was held by the followers of Mahomet, and assumed a countenance grave and severe.

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**Who acts:** Abdalasis, Exilona, followers · **What happens:** seek, urge, recollect, hold, assume, sex · **To what, where:** passion, light estimation, sex, countenance grave

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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, followers), 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:pg77685:37:32
# text = When, however, he sought to urge his passion, she recollected the light estimation in which her sex was held by the followers of Mahomet, and assumed a countenance grave and severe.
1	When	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	3	mark	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
3	however	however	ADV	RB	_	6	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	sought	seek	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	urge	urge	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	passion	passion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	recollected	recollect	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	estimation	estimation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	22	obl	_	_
19	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	sex	sex	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj:pass	_	_
21	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux:pass	_	_
22	held	hold	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	acl:relcl	_	_
23	by	by	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	followers	follower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obl	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	Mahomet	Mahomet	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	assumed	assume	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	_
31	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
32	countenance	countenance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	compound	_	_
33	grave	grave	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
35	severe	severe	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **seek** | past | Abdalasis |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **urge** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | Abdalasis *not said here* | Abdalasis's passion |  |  |  |  | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent passion=Recipient |
| 3 | **recollect** | past | Exilona | the light estimation |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent estimation=Theme |
| 4 | **hold** | past · passive | the followers of Mahomet | Exilona's sex |  | the light estimation |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent subject=Theme in which=Location |
| 5 | **assume** | past |  | a countenance grave |  |  |  |  | vn adopt-93.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grave=Theme |
| 6 | **sex** |  | Exilona |  |  |  |  |  | nom sex «act transitive»: poss=agent |

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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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