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title: The page hastened to saddle a Barbary steed, fleet as the wind, and… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: The page hastened to saddle a Barbary steed, fleet as the wind, and of a jet black colour, so as not to be easily discernible in the night. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Traitorous Message of Count Julian., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Traitorous Message of Count Julian., sentence 18

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The page hastened to saddle a Barbary steed, fleet as the wind, and of a jet black colour, so as not to be easily discernible in the night.

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**What happens:** hasten, saddle, not be · **To what, where:** page, Barbary steed

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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: 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:pg77685:17:18
# text = The page hastened to saddle a Barbary steed, fleet as the wind, and of a jet black colour, so as not to be easily discernible in the night.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	page	page	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	hastened	hasten	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	saddle	saddle	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	Barbary	Barbary	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	steed	steed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	fleet	fleet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	appos	_	_
11	as	as	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	wind	wind	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	jet	jet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
19	black	black	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	colour	colour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
22	so	so	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
23	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
24	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	28	advmod	_	_
25	to	to	PART	TO	_	28	mark	_	_
26	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	28	cop	_	_
27	easily	easily	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
28	discernible	discernible	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	_
29	in	in	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hasten** | participle |  | the page and jet black colour *not said here* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **saddle** | to-infinitive |  | a Barbary steed |  |  |  |  | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent steed=Destination |
| 3 | **not** **is** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  | night | discernible, easily *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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