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title: The emir, enraged to be disappointed of his prey, embarked at Cartha… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: The emir, enraged to be disappointed of his prey, embarked at Carthagena, and crossed the straits to Ceuta, to make captives of the Countess Frandina and her son. Who acts: emir. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Legend of Count Julian and His Family., with its d
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Legend of Count Julian and His Family., sentence 69

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The emir, enraged to be disappointed of his prey, embarked at Carthagena, and crossed the straits to Ceuta, to make captives of the Countess Frandina and her son.

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**Who acts:** emir · **What happens:** enrage, disappoint, embark, cross, make · **To what, where:** prey, Carthagena, straits, Ceuta, captives

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This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Legend of Count Julian and His Family.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (emir), 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:pg77685:39:69
# text = The emir, enraged to be disappointed of his prey, embarked at Carthagena, and crossed the straits to Ceuta, to make captives of the Countess Frandina and her son.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	emir	emir	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	enraged	enrage	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	7	mark	_	_
6	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	disappointed	disappoint	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	xcomp	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	prey	prey	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	embarked	embark	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	acl	_	_
13	at	at	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	Carthagena	Carthagena	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	crossed	cross	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	straits	strait	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	Ceuta	Ceuta	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
25	captives	captive	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obj	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	Countess	Countess	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
29	Frandina	Frandina	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
31	her	her	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
32	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **enrage** | past | the emir |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **disappoint** | to-infinitive · passive | the emir *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of Count's prey | tree rules |
| 3 | **embark** | participle |  | Count's prey *not said here* |  | Carthagena |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **cross** | past | the emir *not said here* | the straits | Ceuta |  |  |  | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent strait=Patient to ceuta=Recipient |
| 5 | **make** | to-infinitive | the emir *not said here* | captives of the Countess Frandina and Frandina's son |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset captive=Product |

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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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