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title: [25] This sumptuous chariot was drawn by milk-white horses, with cap… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: [25] This sumptuous chariot was drawn by milk-white horses, with caparisons of crimson velvet, embroidered with pearls. Who acts: white horses. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Last Day of the Battle., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Last Day of the Battle., sentence 20

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\[25\] This sumptuous chariot was drawn by milk-white horses, with caparisons of crimson velvet, embroidered with pearls.

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**Who acts:** white horses · **What happens:** draw, embroider · **To what, where:** sumptuous chariot, white horses, 25

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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 (white horses), 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:pg77685:18:20
# text = [25] This sumptuous chariot was drawn by milk-white horses, with caparisons of crimson velvet, embroidered with pearls.
1	[	[	PUNCT	-LRB-	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	25	25	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	]	]	PUNCT	-RRB-	_	2	punct	_	_
4	This	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	6	det	_	_
5	sumptuous	sumptuous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	chariot	chariot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj:pass	_	_
7	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	aux:pass	_	_
8	drawn	draw	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	parataxis	_	_
9	by	by	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
10	milk	milk	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	horses	horse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	with	with	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	caparisons	caparison	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	conj	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	crimson	crimson	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	velvet	velvet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	embroidered	embroider	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	acl	_	_
22	with	with	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	pearls	pearl	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **draw** | past · passive | white horses and caparisons of crimson velvet | this sumptuous chariot |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme |
| 2 | **embroider** | participle |  | white horses and caparisons of crimson velvet *not said here* |  |  |  | with pearls | vn image\_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent with pearl=Theme |

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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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