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title: “Allah is great,” said they, “and commands us to obey our sovereign.” — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: “Allah is great,” said they, “and commands us to obey our sovereign.” Who acts: Allah, orders. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Fate of Abdalasis and Exilona.—death of Muza., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Fate of Abdalasis and Exilona.—death of Muza., sentence 29

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“Allah is great,” said they, “and commands us to obey our sovereign.”

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**Who acts:** Allah, orders · **What happens:** be, say, command, obey · **To what, where:** us, sovereign · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Allah, orders), 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:pg77685:38:29
# text = “Allah is great,” said they, “and commands us to obey our sovereign.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Allah	Allah	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
7	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	commands	command	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	ccomp	_	_
13	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	obey	obey	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	xcomp	_	_
16	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	sovereign	sovereign	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** *in a quote* | present | Allah |  |  |  |  | great *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | orders *= order* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **command** *in a quote* | present |  | us |  |  |  |  | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent we=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 4 | **obey** *not said to happen, in a quote* | to-infinitive |  | our sovereign |  |  |  |  | vn abide\_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sovereign=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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