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title: “In this way, says Aben Habuz the wise, The Andalusian his foe defie… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: “In this way, says Aben Habuz the wise, The Andalusian his foe defies.” 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 72

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“In this way, says Aben Habuz the wise, The Andalusian his foe defies.”

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**Who acts:** Aben · **What happens:** say, defy · **To what, where:** way · **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 (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:pg77685:38:73
# text = “In this way, says Aben Habuz the wise, The Andalusian his foe defies.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	In	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	det	_	_
4	way	way	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	says	say	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	Aben	Aben	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
8	Habuz	Habuz	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	flat	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	wise	wise	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	list	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	Andalusian	Andalusian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	_
14	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	foe	foe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
16	defies	defy	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | present |  |  |  | this way |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **defy** *in a quote* | present | Aben and the Andalusian |  |  |  |  | Aben's foe *nsubj* | tree rules |

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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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