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title: He rode about the field calling out the names of the bravest of his… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: He rode about the field calling out the names of the bravest of his knights, but few answered to his call; the rest lay mangled on the field. Who acts: Ataulpho, few, rest. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Battle of Calpe.—fate of Ataulpho., with its dependency 
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Battle of Calpe.—fate of Ataulpho., sentence 36

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He rode about the field calling out the names of the bravest of his knights, but few answered to his call; the rest lay mangled on the field.

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**Who acts:** Ataulpho, few, rest · **What happens:** ride, call out, answer, lie, mangle, call · **To what, where:** names, field · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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 (Ataulpho, few, rest), 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:pg77685:13:36
# text = He rode about the field calling out the names of the bravest of his knights, but few answered to his call; the rest lay mangled on the field.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	rode	ride	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	about	about	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	field	field	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	calling	call	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
7	out	out	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	names	name	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obj	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	bravest	brave	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	9	nmod	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	knights	knight	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
18	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	nsubj	_	_
19	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
20	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	22	nmod:poss	_	_
22	call	call	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	26	punct	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	rest	rest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
26	lay	lie	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
27	mangled	mangle	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	26	xcomp	_	_
28	on	on	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
30	field	field	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ride** | past | Ataulpho |  |  |  |  | about the field | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **call out** *speech: assert* | gerund | Ataulpho *not said here* | the names of the bravest of Ataulpho's knights |  |  |  |  | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent name=Recipient |
| 3 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past | few |  |  |  |  | to Ataulpho's call | vn subordinate-95.2.1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to call=Co-Agent |
| 4 | **lie** | past | the rest |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **mangle** | participle | the rest *not said here* |  |  | the field |  |  | vn carve-21.2-3 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient |
| 6 | **call** |  | Ataulpho |  |  |  |  |  | nom call «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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