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title: On the following morning, a larger force was ordered out to skirmish… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: On the following morning, a larger force was ordered out to skirmish, and such of the soldiery as were unarmed were commanded to stand ready to seize the horses and strip off the armour of the killed and wounded. Who acts: larger force. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington 
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Skirmishing of the Armies.—pelistes and His Son.—pelistes and the Bishop., sentence 11

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On the following morning, a larger force was ordered out to skirmish, and such of the soldiery as were unarmed were commanded to stand ready to seize the horses and strip off the armour of the killed and wounded.

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**Who acts:** larger force · **What happens:** follow, order out, skirmish, unarm, command, stand · **To what, where:** larger force, soldiery, horses, armour · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Skirmishing of the Armies.—pelistes and His Son.—pelistes and the Bishop.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (larger force), 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:pg77685:16:11
# text = On the following morning, a larger force was ordered out to skirmish, and such of the soldiery as were unarmed were commanded to stand ready to seize the horses and strip off the armour of the killed and wounded.
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	following	follow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	amod	_	_
4	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	larger	large	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	8	amod	_	_
8	force	force	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nsubj:pass	_	_
9	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux:pass	_	_
10	ordered	order	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
11	out	out	ADP	RP	_	10	compound:prt	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	skirmish	skirmish	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	10	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
16	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|ExtPos=ADP	19	case	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	fixed	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	soldiery	soldiery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
20	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
21	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux:pass	_	_
22	unarmed	unarm	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	acl	_	_
23	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux:pass	_	_
24	commanded	command	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	conj	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	26	mark	_	_
26	stand	stand	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	xcomp	_	_
27	ready	ready	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	26	xcomp	_	_
28	to	to	PART	TO	_	29	mark	_	_
29	seize	seize	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	advcl	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	horses	horse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obj	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
33	strip	strip	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	conj	_	_
34	off	off	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	armour	armour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	_
37	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	39	mark	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	killed	kill	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	36	acl	_	_
40	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
41	wounded	wound	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	39	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
42	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **follow** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **order out** | past · passive |  | a larger force |  |  | morning |  | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 3 | **skirmish** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | a larger force *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **unarm** | past · passive |  | the soldiery *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **command** | past · passive |  |  |  |  |  | such the soldiery | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V S»: clause=Topic |
| 6 | **stand** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | ready *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **seize** | to-infinitive |  | the horses and strip |  | the armour |  |  | vn steal-10.5 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent horse=Theme off armour=Source |
| 8 | **kill** | participle |  | the armour *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 9 | **wound** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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