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description: So Abdalasis suffered himself to be beguiled by the blandishments of his wife, and to be invested with the crown and sceptre and other signs of royalty. Who acts: Abdalasis, blandishments. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Fate of Abdalasis and Exilona.—death of 
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Fate of Abdalasis and Exilona.—death of Muza., sentence 13

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So Abdalasis suffered himself to be beguiled by the blandishments of his wife, and to be invested with the crown and sceptre and other signs of royalty.

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**Who acts:** Abdalasis, blandishments · **What happens:** suffer, beguile, invest, blandish, sign · **To what, where:** Abdalasis, wife, royalty

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This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Fate of Abdalasis and Exilona.—death of Muza.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Abdalasis, blandishments), 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:pg77685:38:13
# text = So Abdalasis suffered himself to be beguiled by the blandishments of his wife, and to be invested with the crown and sceptre and other signs of royalty.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	Abdalasis	Abdalasis	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	suffered	suffer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	3	obj	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
6	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	beguiled	beguile	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	advcl	_	_
8	by	by	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	blandishments	blandishment	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	wife	wife	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	18	mark	_	_
17	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	aux:pass	_	_
18	invested	invest	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
19	with	with	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	crown	crown	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	sceptre	sceptre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
25	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	amod	_	_
26	signs	sign	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	conj	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	royalty	royalty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **suffer** | past | Abdalasis | Abdalasis |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer himself=Stimulus |
| 2 | **beguile** | to-infinitive · passive | the blandishments of Abdalasis's wife |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **invest** | to-infinitive · passive | Abdalasis *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with the crown and sceptre and other signs of royalty | vn equip-13.4.2 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP»: with crown=Theme |
| 4 | **blandish** |  |  | Abdalasis's wife |  |  |  |  | nom blandishment «communication transitive»: of=patient |
| 5 | **sign** |  |  | royalty |  |  |  |  | nom sign «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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