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title: There were Moors of both sexes sumptuously arrayed, and adorned with… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: There were Moors of both sexes sumptuously arrayed, and adorned with precious jewels, bearing the demeanour of persons of lofty rank. Who acts: Moors. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Of the Loves of Roderick and the Princess Elyata., with its dependency tree an
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Of the Loves of Roderick and the Princess Elyata., sentence 13

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There were Moors of both sexes sumptuously arrayed, and adorned with precious jewels, bearing the demeanour of persons of lofty rank.

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**Who acts:** Moors · **What happens:** be, array, adorn, bear · **To what, where:** demeanour

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This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Of the Loves of Roderick and the Princess Elyata.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Moors), 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:pg77685:4:13
# text = There were Moors of both sexes sumptuously arrayed, and adorned with precious jewels, bearing the demeanour of persons of lofty rank.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	were	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	advcl	_	_
3	Moors	moor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	6	det	_	_
6	sexes	sex	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	_
7	sumptuously	sumptuously	ADV	RB	_	8	advmod	_	_
8	arrayed	array	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	adorned	adorn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	conj	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	precious	precious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	jewels	jewel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	bearing	bear	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	advcl	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	demeanour	demeanour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	persons	person	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nmod	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	lofty	lofty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	rank	rank	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | past | Moors of both sexes *not said here* |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **array** | past | Moors of both sexes |  |  |  |  | sumptuously *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **adorn** | participle | Moors of both sexes *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with precious jewels | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent with jewel=Theme |
| 4 | **bear** | gerund | Moors of both sexes *not said here* | the demeanour of persons of lofty rank |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent demeanour=Patient |

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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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