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title: Abdalasis was offering up his orisons in a small mosque which he had… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: Abdalasis was offering up his orisons in a small mosque which he had erected for the use of the neighbouring peasantry. Who acts: Abdalasis. 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 pragmati
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Fate of Abdalasis and Exilona.—death of Muza., sentence 39

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Abdalasis was offering up his orisons in a small mosque which he had erected for the use of the neighbouring peasantry.

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**Who acts:** Abdalasis · **What happens:** offer up, erect, neighbour, use · **To what, where:** orisons, small mosque, neighbouring peasantry

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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), 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:pg77685:38:39
# text = Abdalasis was offering up his orisons in a small mosque which he had erected for the use of the neighbouring peasantry.
1	Abdalasis	Abdalasis	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	offering	offer	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
4	up	up	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	orisons	orison	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	mosque	mosque	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
11	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	14	nsubj:pass	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	14	nsubj	_	_
13	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
14	erected	erect	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	acl:relcl	_	_
15	for	for	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	use	use	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	neighbouring	neighbour	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	21	amod	_	_
21	peasantry	peasantry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **offer up** | past · progressive | Abdalasis | Abdalasis's orisons |  | a small mosque |  |  | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent orison=Theme |
| 2 | **erect** | past · perfect · passive |  | a small mosque |  |  |  | for the use of the neighbouring peasantry; Abdalasis *nsubj* | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: subject=Product for use=Beneficiary |
| 3 | **neighbour** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **use** |  |  | the neighbouring peasantry |  |  |  |  | nom use «act 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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