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title: It was a mirror of history, therefore, and had very probably aided K… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: It was a mirror of history, therefore, and had very probably aided King Solomon in acquiring that prodigious knowledge and wisdom for which he was renowned. Who acts: table, Solomon. 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 83

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It was a mirror of history, therefore, and had very probably aided King Solomon in acquiring that prodigious knowledge and wisdom for which he was renowned.

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**Who acts:** table, Solomon · **What happens:** be, have, aid, acquire · **To what, where:** mirror, King Solomon, prodigious knowledge

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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 (table, Solomon), 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:pg77685:38:84
# text = It was a mirror of history, therefore, and had very probably aided King Solomon in acquiring that prodigious knowledge and wisdom for which he was renowned.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	mirror	mirror	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	history	history	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	therefore	therefore	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
12	very	very	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
13	probably	probably	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
14	aided	aid	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
15	King	King	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	Solomon	Solomon	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
18	acquiring	acquire	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	advcl	_	_
19	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
20	prodigious	prodigious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	knowledge	knowledge	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	wisdom	wisdom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	conj	_	_
24	for	for	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	28	obl	_	_
26	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
27	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	28	cop	_	_
28	renowned	renowned	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past | table | a mirror |  |  |  | of history | tree rules |
| 2 | **have** | past |  |  |  |  |  | therefore *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **aid** | past |  |  | King Solomon |  |  | probably *property* | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent solomon=Beneficiary |
| 4 | **acquire** | gerund |  | prodigious knowledge and wisdom |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset knowledge=Theme |
| 5 | **is** | past | Solomon |  |  |  |  | for prodigious knowledge and wisdom; renowned *property* | 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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