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title: Twelve thousand men were chosen for this expedition: most of them li… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: Twelve thousand men were chosen for this expedition: most of them light Arabian troops, seasoned in warfare, and fitted for hardy and rapid enterprise. Who acts: most. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Letter of Muza to the Caliph.—second Expedition of Taric El T
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Letter of Muza to the Caliph.—second Expedition of Taric El Tuerto., sentence 16

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Twelve thousand men were chosen for this expedition: most of them light Arabian troops, seasoned in warfare, and fitted for hardy and rapid enterprise.

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**Who acts:** most · **What happens:** choose, troops, season, fit · **To what, where:** thousand men, light Arabian troops, warfare

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This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Letter of Muza to the Caliph.—second Expedition of Taric El Tuerto.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (most), 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:pg77685:11:16
# text = Twelve thousand men were chosen for this expedition: most of them light Arabian troops, seasoned in warfare, and fitted for hardy and rapid enterprise.
1	Twelve	twelve	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	2	compound	_	_
2	thousand	thousand	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	chosen	choose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	8	det	_	_
8	expedition	expedition	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
10	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	15	nsubj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nmod	_	_
13	light	light	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
14	Arabian	Arabian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	troops	troops	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	seasoned	season	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	15	acl	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	warfare	warfare	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	fitted	fit	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	parataxis	_	_
23	for	for	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
24	hardy	hardy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	rapid	rapid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	conj	_	_
27	enterprise	enterprise	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **choose** | past · passive |  | thousand men |  |  |  | for this expedition | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: subject=Theme for expedition=Beneficiary |
| 2 | **troops** |  | most of men |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **season** | participle |  | light Arabian troops *not said here* |  | warfare |  |  | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **fit** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | for hardy enterprise | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent |

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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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