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title: The Christian squadrons paraded with flying pennons in the valley wh… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: The Christian squadrons paraded with flying pennons in the valley which lay between the armies. Who acts: valley. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Skirmishing of the Armies.—pelistes and His Son.—pelistes and the Bishop., with its dependency tree and the pragmat
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Skirmishing of the Armies.—pelistes and His Son.—pelistes and the Bishop., sentence 4

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The Christian squadrons paraded with flying pennons in the valley which lay between the armies.

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**Who acts:** valley · **What happens:** parade, lie · **To what, where:** Christian squadrons, valley, armies

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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 (valley), 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:pg77685:16:4
# text = The Christian squadrons paraded with flying pennons in the valley which lay between the armies.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Christian	Christian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	squadrons	squadron	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	_
4	paraded	parade	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	flying	flying	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	_
7	pennons	pennon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	valley	valley	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
11	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	12	nsubj	_	_
12	lay	lie	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	acl:relcl	_	_
13	between	between	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	armies	army	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **parade** | participle |  | the Christian squadrons *not said here* |  | the valley |  | with flying pennons | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in valley=Trajectory |
| 2 | **lie** | past | the valley |  |  | the armies |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent between army=Location |

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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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