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title: Among them were many horsemen, mounted on fleet Arabian steeds. — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: Among them were many horsemen, mounted on fleet Arabian steeds. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Letter of Muza to the Caliph.—second Expedition of Taric El Tuerto., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Letter of Muza to the Caliph.—second Expedition of Taric El Tuerto., sentence 17

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Among them were many horsemen, mounted on fleet Arabian steeds.

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**What happens:** be, mount · **To what, where:** many horsemen, fleet Arabian steeds

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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: 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:pg77685:11:17
# text = Among them were many horsemen, mounted on fleet Arabian steeds.
1	Among	among	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	obl	_	_
3	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	horsemen	horseman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
7	mounted	mount	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl	_	_
8	on	on	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	fleet	fleet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
10	Arabian	Arabian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	steeds	steed	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is a** | past |  | many horsemen |  |  |  | among troops | tree rules |
| 2 | **mount** | participle |  | many horsemen *not said here* |  | fleet Arabian steeds |  |  | vn put-9.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on steed=Destination |

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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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