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title: The Moslems had already felt jealous of the ascendancy of this beaut… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: The Moslems had already felt jealous of the ascendancy of this beautiful woman; and it was now confidently asserted that Abdalasis, won by her persuasions, had secretly turned Christian. Who acts: Moslems, assumption, Abdalasis, beautiful woman. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Wa
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Fate of Abdalasis and Exilona.—death of Muza., sentence 17

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The Moslems had already felt jealous of the ascendancy of this beautiful woman; and it was now confidently asserted that Abdalasis, won by her persuasions, had secretly turned Christian.

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**Who acts:** Moslems, assumption, Abdalasis, beautiful woman, woman · **What happens:** feel, be, win, turn, ascend, persuade · **To what, where:** Christian

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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 (Moslems, assumption, Abdalasis, beautiful woman), 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:pg77685:38:17
# text = The Moslems had already felt jealous of the ascendancy of this beautiful woman; and it was now confidently asserted that Abdalasis, won by her persuasions, had secretly turned Christian.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Moslems	Moslem	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
3	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	already	already	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	felt	feel	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
6	jealous	jealous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	xcomp	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	ascendancy	ascendancy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	13	det	_	_
12	beautiful	beautiful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	woman	woman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
16	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	20	nsubj:outer	_	_
17	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
18	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	20	advmod	_	_
19	confidently	confidently	ADV	RB	_	20	advmod	_	_
20	asserted	assert	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
21	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
22	Abdalasis	Abdalasis	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
24	won	win	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	advcl	_	_
25	by	by	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	persuasions	persuasion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
29	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	aux	_	_
30	secretly	secretly	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
31	turned	turn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	24	advcl	_	_
32	Christian	Christian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	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 | **feel** | past · perfect | the Moslems |  |  |  |  | jealous *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
| 2 | **is** | past | assumption |  |  |  | now | assert, confidently *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **win** | past | Abdalasis |  |  |  |  | by woman's persuasions | vn succeed-74-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **turn** | past · perfect | Abdalasis *not said here* | Christian |  |  |  | secretly *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V ADJ.result»: agent=Theme christian=Result |
| 5 | **ascend** |  | this beautiful woman |  |  |  |  |  | nom ascendancy «state intransitive»: of=agent |
| 6 | **persuade** |  | woman |  |  |  |  |  | nom persuasion «communication 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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