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title: The twang of the bow-string was followed by the crash of armour, and… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: The twang of the bow-string was followed by the crash of armour, and a deep groan, as the horseman tumbled to the earth. Who acts: crash, horseman, armour. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Traitorous Message of Count Julian., with its dependency tree and the pra
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Traitorous Message of Count Julian., sentence 38

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The twang of the bow-string was followed by the crash of armour, and a deep groan, as the horseman tumbled to the earth.

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**Who acts:** crash, horseman, armour · **What happens:** follow, tumble, twang, crash · **To what, where:** twang, earth, bow string

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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 (crash, horseman, armour), 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:pg77685:17:38
# text = The twang of the bow-string was followed by the crash of armour, and a deep groan, as the horseman tumbled to the earth.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	twang	twang	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
5	bow	bow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	string	string	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
8	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux:pass	_	_
9	followed	follow	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
10	by	by	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	crash	crash	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	armour	armour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	groan	groan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
21	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	horseman	horseman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nsubj	_	_
24	tumbled	tumble	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
25	to	to	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	earth	earth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **follow** | past · passive | the crash of armour and a deep groan | the twang of the bow string |  |  |  |  | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme |
| 2 | **tumble** | past | the horseman |  |  | the earth |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to earth=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **twang** |  |  | the bow string |  |  |  |  | nom twang «event transitive»: of=patient |
| 4 | **crash** |  | armour |  |  |  |  |  | nom crash «event 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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