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title: When the troops were marshalled for the field, Don Roderick prepared… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: When the troops were marshalled for the field, Don Roderick prepared to sally forth in the state and pomp with which the Gothic kings were wont to go to battle. Who acts: Don, Gothic kings. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Last Day of the Battle., with its depen
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Last Day of the Battle., sentence 16

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When the troops were marshalled for the field, Don Roderick prepared to sally forth in the state and pomp with which the Gothic kings were wont to go to battle.

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**Who acts:** Don, Gothic kings · **What happens:** marshall, prepare, be, go, battle · **To what, where:** troops, state

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This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Last Day of the Battle.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Don, Gothic kings), 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:pg77685:18:16
# text = When the troops were marshalled for the field, Don Roderick prepared to sally forth in the state and pomp with which the Gothic kings were wont to go to battle.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	troops	troops	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
5	marshalled	marshall	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	advcl	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	field	field	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
10	Don	Don	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	_
11	Roderick	Roderick	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	flat	_	_
12	prepared	prepare	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	15	mark	_	_
14	sally	sally	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	state	state	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	pomp	pomp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	conj	_	_
21	with	with	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	27	obl	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	Gothic	gothic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	kings	king	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nsubj	_	_
26	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	cop	_	_
27	wont	wont	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	acl:relcl	_	_
28	to	to	PART	TO	_	29	mark	_	_
29	go	go	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	xcomp	_	_
30	to	to	PART	TO	_	31	mark	_	_
31	battle	battle	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	29	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **marshall** | past · passive |  | the troops |  |  |  | for the field | tree rules |
| 2 | **prepare** | past | Don |  |  | the state and pomp |  | forth *property* | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **is** | past | the Gothic kings |  |  |  |  | with pomp; wont *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **go** | to-infinitive | the Gothic kings *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 5 | **battle** | to-infinitive | the Gothic kings *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: agent=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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