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title: In a moment the city was in a ferment, and there was a ferocious emu… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: In a moment the city was in a ferment, and there was a ferocious emulation who should be first to execute the orders of the caliph. Who acts: city, ferocious emulation. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Fate of Abdalasis and Exilona.—death of Muza., with its depe
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Fate of Abdalasis and Exilona.—death of Muza., sentence 35

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In a moment the city was in a ferment, and there was a ferocious emulation who should be first to execute the orders of the caliph.

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**Who acts:** city, ferocious emulation · **What happens:** be, execute, order · **To what, where:** ferment, orders, caliph

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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 (city, ferocious emulation), 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:pg77685:38:35
# text = In a moment the city was in a ferment, and there was a ferocious emulation who should be first to execute the orders of the caliph.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	moment	moment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
6	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	cop	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	ferment	ferment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
12	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	13	expl	_	_
13	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	parataxis	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	ferocious	ferocious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	emulation	emulation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nsubj	_	_
17	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	20	nsubj	_	_
18	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	20	aux	_	_
19	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	cop	_	_
20	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	16	acl:relcl	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	execute	execute	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	acl	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	orders	order	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obj	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	caliph	caliph	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the city |  |  | a ferment | moment |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** | past | a ferocious emulation |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **is** | should | a ferocious emulation |  |  |  |  | first *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **execute** | to-infinitive |  | the orders of the caliph |  |  |  |  | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent order=Patient |
| 5 | **order** |  |  | the caliph |  |  |  |  | nom order «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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