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title: These accusations arrived at Damascus just after the accession of th… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: These accusations arrived at Damascus just after the accession of the sanguinary Suleiman to the throne, and in the height of his persecution of the unfortunate Muza. Who acts: accusations, sanguinary, Damascus. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Fate of Abdalasis
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Fate of Abdalasis and Exilona.—death of Muza., sentence 21

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These accusations arrived at Damascus just after the accession of the sanguinary Suleiman to the throne, and in the height of his persecution of the unfortunate Muza.

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**Who acts:** accusations, sanguinary, Damascus · **What happens:** arrive, accede, persecute · **To what, where:** Damascus, unfortunate Muza

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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 (accusations, sanguinary, Damascus), 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:pg77685:38:21
# text = These accusations arrived at Damascus just after the accession of the sanguinary Suleiman to the throne, and in the height of his persecution of the unfortunate Muza.
1	These	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	2	det	_	_
2	accusations	accusation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	arrived	arrive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	at	at	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	Damascus	Damascus	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
6	just	just	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
7	after	after	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	accession	accession	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	sanguinary	sanguinary	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nmod	_	_
13	Suleiman	Suleiman	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	appos	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	throne	throne	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	height	height	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	persecution	persecution	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	unfortunate	unfortunate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	Muza	Muza	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **arrive** | past | this accusations |  |  | Damascus | after the accession of the sanguinary | to the throne; the height of Damascus's persecution of the unfortunate Muza *conj* | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to throne=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **accede** |  | the sanguinary |  |  |  |  |  | nom accession «process intransitive»: of=agent |
| 3 | **persecute** |  | Damascus | the unfortunate Muza |  |  |  |  | nom persecution «act transitive»: poss=agent 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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