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title: The soldiery answered their monarch with loud acclamations, and sole… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: The soldiery answered their monarch with loud acclamations, and solemnly pledged themselves to fight to the last gasp in defence of their country and their faith. Who acts: soldiery. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Terror of the Country.—roderick Rouses Himself
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Terror of the Country.—roderick Rouses Himself to Arms., sentence 42

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The soldiery answered their monarch with loud acclamations, and solemnly pledged themselves to fight to the last gasp in defence of their country and their faith.

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**Who acts:** soldiery · **What happens:** answer, pledge, fight, defend · **To what, where:** monarch, toil, defence, country

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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 (soldiery), 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:pg77685:14:42
# text = The soldiery answered their monarch with loud acclamations, and solemnly pledged themselves to fight to the last gasp in defence of their country and their faith.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	soldiery	soldiery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	answered	answer	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	monarch	monarch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	loud	loud	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	acclamations	acclamation	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
11	solemnly	solemnly	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	pledged	pledge	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
13	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	12	obj	_	_
14	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
15	fight	fight	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	xcomp	_	_
16	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	gasp	gasp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	defence	defence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
22	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nmod	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	27	cc	_	_
26	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	faith	faith	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **answer** *speech: assert* | past | the soldiery | toil's monarch |  |  |  | with loud acclamations | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent monarch=Eventuality |
| 2 | **pledge** | past | the soldiery *not said here* | toil |  |  |  | solemnly *property* | vn promise-37.13 «NP V NP that S»: agent=Agent themselves=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 3 | **fight** | to-infinitive | the soldiery *not said here* |  |  | defence of toil's country and toil's faith |  | to the last gasp | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **defend** |  |  | toil's country and toil's faith |  |  |  |  | nom defence «process 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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