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title: He summoned a hasty levy of horse and foot, amounting to forty thous… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: He summoned a hasty levy of horse and foot, amounting to forty thousand; but now were felt the effects of the crafty council of Count Julian, for the best of the horses and armour intended for the public service had been sent into Africa, and were really in possession of the traitors. Who acts: sunk
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter XI., sentence 4

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He summoned a hasty levy of horse and foot, amounting to forty thousand; but now were felt the effects of the crafty council of Count Julian, for the best of the horses and armour intended for the public service had been sent into Africa, and were really in possession of the traitors.

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**Who acts:** sunk · **What happens:** summon, amount, be, intend, send, levy · **To what, where:** hasty levy, horses, Africa, possession, horse, crafty council

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This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Chapter XI.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sunk), 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:pg77685:12:4
# text = He summoned a hasty levy of horse and foot, amounting to forty thousand; but now were felt the effects of the crafty council of Count Julian, for the best of the horses and armour intended for the public service had been sent into Africa, and were really in possession of the traitors.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	summoned	summon	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	hasty	hasty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	levy	levy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	foot	foot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
11	amounting	amount	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
12	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	forty	forty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	compound	_	_
14	thousand	thousand	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	19	punct	_	_
16	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
17	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	19	advmod	_	_
18	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	19	cop	_	_
19	felt	feel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
21	effects	effect	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obj	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	crafty	crafty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	council	council	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	Count	Count	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
28	Julian	Julian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
30	for	for	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	best	good	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	45	parataxis	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	horses	horse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	32	obl	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
37	armour	armour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	conj	_	_
38	intended	intend	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	35	acl	_	_
39	for	for	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
41	public	public	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	amod	_	_
42	service	service	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	obl	_	_
43	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	45	aux	_	_
44	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	45	aux:pass	_	_
45	sent	send	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	advcl	_	_
46	into	into	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
47	Africa	Africa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	45	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	53	punct	_	_
49	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	53	cc	_	_
50	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	53	cop	_	_
51	really	really	ADV	RB	_	53	advmod	_	_
52	in	in	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
53	possession	possession	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
54	of	of	ADP	IN	_	56	case	_	_
55	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	56	det	_	_
56	traitors	traitor	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	53	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
57	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **summon** | past | sunk | a hasty levy of horse and foot |  |  |  |  | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent levy=Recipient |
| 2 | **amount** | gerund | sunk *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to forty thousand | vn register-54.1-1 «NP V PP.value»: agent=Theme to thousand=Value |
| 3 | **is** | past | sunk *not said here* |  |  |  | now | the effects of the crafty council of Count Julian *obj*; feel *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **intend** | participle |  | the horses and armour *not said here* |  |  |  | for the public service | vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **send** | past · perfect · passive | sunk *not said here* |  |  | Africa |  |  | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP» |
| 6 | **is** | past |  |  |  | possession |  | of the traitors | tree rules |
| 7 | **levy** |  |  | horse |  |  |  |  | nom levy «possession transitive»: of=patient |
| 8 | **effect** |  |  | the crafty council of Count Julian |  |  |  |  | nom effect «phenomenon 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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