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title: Taric ben Zeyad had been surprised by the valour of the Christian ca… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: Taric ben Zeyad had been surprised by the valour of the Christian cavaliers in the recent battles, and at the number and apparent devotion of the troops which accompanied the king to the field. Who acts: valour, apparent devotion. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Traitorous Message of Count Julian., sentence 1

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Taric ben Zeyad had been surprised by the valour of the Christian cavaliers in the recent battles, and at the number and apparent devotion of the troops which accompanied the king to the field.

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**Who acts:** valour, apparent devotion · **What happens:** surprise, accompany, devote · **To what, where:** Taric ben, number, king, field, troops

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This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Traitorous Message of Count Julian.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (valour, apparent devotion), 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:pg77685:17:1
# text = Taric ben Zeyad had been surprised by the valour of the Christian cavaliers in the recent battles, and at the number and apparent devotion of the troops which accompanied the king to the field.
1	Taric	Taric	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	compound	_	_
2	ben	ben	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	Zeyad	Zeyad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	_
4	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
5	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	surprised	surprise	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	by	by	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	valour	valour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	Christian	Christian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	cavaliers	cavalier	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nmod	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	recent	recent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	battles	battle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
20	at	at	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
24	apparent	apparent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	devotion	devotion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	troops	troops	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	25	nmod	_	_
29	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	30	nsubj	_	_
30	accompanied	accompany	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	acl:relcl	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	_
33	to	to	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	field	field	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | **surprise** | past · perfect · passive | the valour of the Christian cavaliers in the recent battles | Taric ben |  | the number and apparent devotion of the troops |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus subject=Experiencer |
| 2 | **accompany** | past | apparent devotion of the troops | the king |  | the field |  |  | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent king=Theme to field=Destination |
| 3 | **devote** |  |  | the troops |  |  |  |  | nom devotion «feeling 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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