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title: In the motley army here assembled were warriors of every tribe and n… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: In the motley army here assembled were warriors of every tribe and nation, that had been united by pact or conquest in the cause of Islam. Who acts: pact. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Chapter IX., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter IX., sentence 4

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In the motley army here assembled were warriors of every tribe and nation, that had been united by pact or conquest in the cause of Islam.

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**Who acts:** pact · **What happens:** assemble, be, unite, cause · **To what, where:** assembled warriors, cause, motley army, Islam

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This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Chapter IX.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (pact), 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:pg77685:10:4
# text = In the motley army here assembled were warriors of every tribe and nation, that had been united by pact or conquest in the cause of Islam.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	motley	motley	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	compound	_	_
4	army	army	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
5	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	4	advmod	_	_
6	assembled	assemble	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	amod	_	_
7	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
8	warriors	warrior	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	conj	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	11	det	_	_
11	tribe	tribe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	nation	nation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	18	nsubj:pass	_	_
16	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
17	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	18	aux:pass	_	_
18	united	unite	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	acl	_	_
19	by	by	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	pact	pact	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
21	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	conquest	conquest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	_
23	in	in	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	cause	cause	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	Islam	Islam	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **assemble** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is a** | past |  | assembled warriors |  |  |  | of every tribe and nation | tree rules |
| 3 | **unite** | past · perfect · passive | pact or conquest | assembled warriors |  | the cause of Islam |  |  | vn amalgamate-22.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient |
| 5 | **cause** |  |  | Islam |  |  |  |  | nom cause «event transitive»: of=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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