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title: There were swarthy troops from every nation of the African coast, to… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: There were swarthy troops from every nation of the African coast, together with legions from Syria and Egypt, while the light Bedouins were careering about the adjacent plain. Who acts: swarthy troops, light Bedouins. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Chapter XIV
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter XIV., sentence 6

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There were swarthy troops from every nation of the African coast, together with legions from Syria and Egypt, while the light Bedouins were careering about the adjacent plain.

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**Who acts:** swarthy troops, light Bedouins · **What happens:** be, career · **To what, where:** nation

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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 (swarthy troops, light Bedouins), 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:pg77685:15:6
# text = There were swarthy troops from every nation of the African coast, together with legions from Syria and Egypt, while the light Bedouins were careering about the adjacent plain.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	were	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	swarthy	swarthy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	troops	troops	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	2	nsubj	_	_
5	from	from	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	7	det	_	_
7	nation	nation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	African	African	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	coast	coast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
13	together	together	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
14	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	legions	legion	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
16	from	from	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	Syria	Syria	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	Egypt	Egypt	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
21	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	26	mark	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	compound	_	_
24	Bedouins	bedouin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	nsubj	_	_
25	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	careering	career	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
27	about	about	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	adjacent	adjacent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	plain	plain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	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 | **be** | past | swarthy troops |  |  | every nation of the African coast; there |  | legions from Syria and Egypt *nsubj* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **career** | past · progressive | the light Bedouins |  |  |  |  | about the adjacent plain | 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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