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title: The scattered fugitives of the Christian army spread terror througho… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: The scattered fugitives of the Christian army spread terror throughout the land. Who acts: scattered fugitives. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Terror of the Country.—roderick Rouses Himself to Arms., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Terror of the Country.—roderick Rouses Himself to Arms., sentence 1

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The scattered fugitives of the Christian army spread terror throughout the land.

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**Who acts:** scattered fugitives · **What happens:** spread · **To what, where:** terror, land

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This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Terror of the Country.—roderick Rouses Himself to Arms.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (scattered fugitives), 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:pg77685:14:1
# text = The scattered fugitives of the Christian army spread terror throughout the land.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	scattered	scatter	ADJ	VBN	_	3	amod	_	_
3	fugitives	fugitive	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	Christian	Christian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	army	army	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
8	spread	spread	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	terror	terror	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
10	throughout	throughout	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **spread** | past | the scattered fugitives of the Christian army | terror |  | the land |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent terror=Theme throughout land=Destination |

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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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