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title: Theodomir had but seventeen hundred men under his command, and these… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: Theodomir had but seventeen hundred men under his command, and these but rudely armed; yet he made a resolute stand against the army of Taric, and defended the pass to the promontory with great valour. Who acts: Theodomir. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Letter
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Letter of Muza to the Caliph.—second Expedition of Taric El Tuerto., sentence 44

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Theodomir had but seventeen hundred men under his command, and these but rudely armed; yet he made a resolute stand against the army of Taric, and defended the pass to the promontory with great valour.

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**Who acts:** Theodomir · **What happens:** have, make, defend, command · **To what, where:** hundred men, command, resolute stand, pass · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Theodomir), 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:pg77685:11:44
# text = Theodomir had but seventeen hundred men under his command, and these but rudely armed; yet he made a resolute stand against the army of Taric, and defended the pass to the promontory with great valour.
1	Theodomir	Theodomir	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
4	seventeen	seventeen	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	compound	_	_
5	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
6	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
7	under	under	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	command	command	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	these	this	PRON	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	2	obj	_	_
13	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	rudely	rudely	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	armed	armed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	yet	yet	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	resolute	resolute	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	stand	stand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
23	against	against	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	army	army	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
27	Taric	Taric	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
30	defended	defend	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	pass	pass	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	_
33	to	to	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	promontory	promontory	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	_
36	with	with	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	great	great	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	valour	valour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | Theodomir | hundred men |  | Theodomir's command |  | these *obj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **make** | past | Theodomir | a resolute stand |  |  |  | against the army of Taric | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stand=Product |
| 3 | **defend** | past |  | the pass |  |  |  | to the promontory with great valour | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pass=Beneficiary |
| 4 | **command** |  | Theodomir |  |  |  |  |  | nom command «communication transitive»: poss=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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