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title: The Christian troops, though irregular and undisciplined, were full… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: The Christian troops, though irregular and undisciplined, were full of native courage; for the old warrior spirit of their Gothic sires still glowed in their bosoms. Who acts: sires. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Battle of Calpe.—fate of Ataulpho., with its d
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Battle of Calpe.—fate of Ataulpho., sentence 14

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The Christian troops, though irregular and undisciplined, were full of native courage; for the old warrior spirit of their Gothic sires still glowed in their bosoms.

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**Who acts:** sires · **What happens:** be, glow, bosom · **To what, where:** bosoms, Christian troops

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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: who acts (sires), 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:pg77685:13:14
# text = The Christian troops, though irregular and undisciplined, were full of native courage; for the old warrior spirit of their Gothic sires still glowed in their bosoms.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Christian	Christian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	troops	troops	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
6	irregular	irregular	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	undisciplined	undisciplined	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
11	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	native	native	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	courage	courage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	26	punct	_	_
16	for	for	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
18	old	old	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
19	warrior	warrior	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
20	spirit	spirit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
23	Gothic	gothic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	sires	sire	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	nmod	_	_
25	still	still	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	glowed	glow	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
27	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	bosoms	bosom	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | of native courage; full *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **glow** | past |  |  |  | sires's bosoms | still | for the old warrior spirit of troops's Gothic sires | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in bosom=Location |
| 4 | **bosom** |  | sires *= sire* |  |  |  |  |  | nom bosom «state 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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