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title: Those who were of noble rank were entertained in luxury and magnific… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: Those who were of noble rank were entertained in luxury and magnificence; slaves were appointed to attend upon them, and they were arrayed in the richest apparel and decorated with the most precious jewels. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Loves of Abdalasis and
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Loves of Abdalasis and Exilona., sentence 4

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Those who were of noble rank were entertained in luxury and magnificence; slaves were appointed to attend upon them, and they were arrayed in the richest apparel and decorated with the most precious jewels.

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**What happens:** be, appoint, attend, array, decorate · **To what, where:** luxury, slaves, richest apparel

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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:pg77685:37:4
# text = Those who were of noble rank were entertained in luxury and magnificence; slaves were appointed to attend upon them, and they were arrayed in the richest apparel and decorated with the most precious jewels.
1	Those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	8	det	_	_
2	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	8	nsubj	_	_
3	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
4	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
5	noble	noble	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	rank	rank	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
7	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
8	entertained	entertained	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	luxury	luxury	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	magnificence	magnificence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
14	slaves	slave	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nsubj:pass	_	_
15	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux:pass	_	_
16	appointed	appoint	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	parataxis	_	_
17	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
18	attend	attend	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	xcomp	_	_
19	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
23	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
24	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux:pass	_	_
25	arrayed	array	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	conj	_	_
26	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	richest	rich	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	29	amod	_	_
29	apparel	apparel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	decorated	decorate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	25	conj	_	_
32	with	with	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
34	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	35	advmod	_	_
35	precious	precious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	36	amod	_	_
36	jewels	jewel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	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 | **is** | past |  |  |  | luxury and magnificence |  | who *nsubj*; noble rank *nsubj*; entertained *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **appoint** | past · passive |  | slaves |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **attend** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | upon slaves *= slave* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent upon they=Theme |
| 4 | **array** | past · passive |  | slaves *= slave* |  | the richest apparel |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **decorate** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | with the precious jewels | vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with jewel=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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