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title: “Dice el sabio Aben Habuz Que asi se defiende el Andaluz.” — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: “Dice el sabio Aben Habuz Que asi se defiende el Andaluz.” Who acts: Aben. 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 71

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“Dice el sabio Aben Habuz Que asi se defiende el Andaluz.”

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**Who acts:** Aben · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** defiende el

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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 (Aben), 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:pg77685:38:72
# text = “Dice el sabio Aben Habuz Que asi se defiende el Andaluz.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Dice	dice	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	el	el	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	sabio	sabio	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod:desc	_	_
5	Aben	Aben	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
6	Habuz	Habuz	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	flat	_	_
7	Que	Que	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	flat	_	_
8	asi	asi	X	FW	Foreign=Yes	5	dep	_	_
9	se	be	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	defiende	defiende	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	el	el	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	Andaluz	Andaluz	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** *in a quote* | present | Aben  el sabio | defiende el |  |  |  |  | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot el=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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