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title: He was mounted on a superb Andalusian charger, richly caparisoned wi… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: He was mounted on a superb Andalusian charger, richly caparisoned with crimson velvet, embroidered with gold. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Battle of Calpe.—fate of Ataulpho., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Battle of Calpe.—fate of Ataulpho., sentence 11

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He was mounted on a superb Andalusian charger, richly caparisoned with crimson velvet, embroidered with gold.

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**What happens:** mount, caparison, embroider · **To what, where:** Ataulpho, superb Andalusian charger, crimson velvet

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This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Battle of Calpe.—fate of Ataulpho.. 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:pg77685:13:11
# text = He was mounted on a superb Andalusian charger, richly caparisoned with crimson velvet, embroidered with gold.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	mounted	mount	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
6	superb	superb	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
7	Andalusian	Andalusian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	charger	charger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	richly	richly	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
11	caparisoned	caparison	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	crimson	crimson	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	velvet	velvet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	embroidered	embroider	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	acl	_	_
17	with	with	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	gold	gold	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mount** | past · passive |  | Ataulpho |  | a superb Andalusian charger |  |  | vn put-9.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme on charger=Destination |
| 2 | **caparison** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | with crimson velvet; richly *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **embroider** | participle |  | crimson velvet *not said here* |  |  |  | with gold | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent with gold=Theme |

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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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