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title: One day, when they were alone in the palace of Seville, and the hear… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: One day, when they were alone in the palace of Seville, and the heart of Abdalasis was given up to tenderness, she addressed him in fond yet timid accents. Who acts: brows, Exilona. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Fate of Abdalasis and Exilona.—death of Muza., 
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Fate of Abdalasis and Exilona.—death of Muza., sentence 4

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One day, when they were alone in the palace of Seville, and the heart of Abdalasis was given up to tenderness, she addressed him in fond yet timid accents.

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**Who acts:** brows, Exilona · **What happens:** be, give up, address · **To what, where:** palace, heart, tenderness, Abdalasis, fond accents, One day

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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 (brows, Exilona), 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:pg77685:38:4
# text = One day, when they were alone in the palace of Seville, and the heart of Abdalasis was given up to tenderness, she addressed him in fond yet timid accents.
1	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	nummod	_	_
2	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	10	advmod	_	_
5	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
6	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	cop	_	_
7	alone	alone	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	palace	palace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	Seville	Seville	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj:pass	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	Abdalasis	Abdalasis	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
19	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux:pass	_	_
20	given	give	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	conj	_	_
21	up	up	ADP	RP	_	20	compound:prt	_	_
22	to	to	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	tenderness	tenderness	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
25	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	_
26	addressed	address	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	advcl	_	_
27	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	obj	_	_
28	in	in	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
29	fond	fond	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
30	yet	yet	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	timid	timid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	conj	_	_
32	accents	accent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | brows *= brow* |  |  | the palace |  | of Seville; alone *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **give up** | past · passive |  | the heart of Abdalasis | tenderness |  |  |  | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: subject=Theme to tenderness=Recipient |
| 3 | **address** | past | Exilona |  | Abdalasis | fond accents |  |  | vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Destination |

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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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