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title: The infidel host was far inferior in number to the Christians; but t… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: The infidel host was far inferior in number to the Christians; but then it was composed of hardy and dexterous troops, seasoned to war, and admirably armed. Who acts: infidel host. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Chapter XIV., with its dependency tree and the p
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter XIV., sentence 4

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The infidel host was far inferior in number to the Christians; but then it was composed of hardy and dexterous troops, seasoned to war, and admirably armed.

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**Who acts:** infidel host · **What happens:** be, compose, season · **To what, where:** number, host

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This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Chapter XIV.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (infidel host), 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:pg77685:15:4
# text = The infidel host was far inferior in number to the Christians; but then it was composed of hardy and dexterous troops, seasoned to war, and admirably armed.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	infidel	infidel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	compound	_	_
3	host	host	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
4	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
5	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	6	advmod	_	_
6	inferior	inferior	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	Christians	Christian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
13	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
14	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	17	advmod	_	_
15	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	17	nsubj:pass	_	_
16	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux:pass	_	_
17	composed	compose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	parataxis	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
19	hardy	hardy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	dexterous	dexterous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	conj	_	_
22	troops	troops	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
24	seasoned	season	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	conj	_	_
25	to	to	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	war	war	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
28	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
29	admirably	admirably	ADV	RB	_	30	advmod	_	_
30	armed	armed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the infidel host |  |  | number to the Christians |  | far, inferior *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **compose** | past · passive |  | host |  |  | then | of hardy troops | vn create-26.4-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Result |
| 3 | **season** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | to war | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **be** |  | the infidel host *not said here* |  |  |  |  | admirably *property* | tree rules |

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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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