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title: He girded on a sword and dagger, slung an Arab bow with a quiver of… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: He girded on a sword and dagger, slung an Arab bow with a quiver of arrows at his side, and a buckler at his shoulder. Who acts: page, arrows. 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 ev
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Traitorous Message of Count Julian., sentence 19

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He girded on a sword and dagger, slung an Arab bow with a quiver of arrows at his side, and a buckler at his shoulder.

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**Who acts:** page, arrows · **What happens:** gird, sling, quiver · **To what, where:** buckler, sword, Arab bow, side

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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 (page, arrows), 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:pg77685:17:19
# text = He girded on a sword and dagger, slung an Arab bow with a quiver of arrows at his side, and a buckler at his shoulder.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	girded	gird	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	on	on	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	sword	sword	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	dagger	dagger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	slung	sling	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
10	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	Arab	Arab	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	bow	bow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	quiver	quiver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	arrows	arrow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nmod	_	_
18	at	at	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	side	side	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	buckler	buckler	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
25	at	at	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	shoulder	shoulder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **gird** | past | page | a buckler at page's shoulder |  | a sword and dagger |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **sling** | past | page *not said here* | a Arab bow |  | page's side |  | with a quiver of arrows | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent bow=Theme at side=Destination |
| 3 | **quiver** |  | arrows |  |  |  |  |  | nom quiver «feeling intransitive»: of=agent |

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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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