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title: As the royal car rolled along in front of the squadrons, the soldier… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: As the royal car rolled along in front of the squadrons, the soldiers shouted with admiration. Who acts: soldiers. 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 23

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As the royal car rolled along in front of the squadrons, the soldiers shouted with admiration.

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**Who acts:** soldiers · **What happens:** roll, shout · **To what, where:** royal car, front

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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 (soldiers), 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:pg77685:18:23
# text = As the royal car rolled along in front of the squadrons, the soldiers shouted with admiration.
1	As	as	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	royal	royal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	car	car	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
5	rolled	roll	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl	_	_
6	along	along	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	front	front	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	squadrons	squadron	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	soldiers	soldier	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
15	shouted	shout	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
16	with	with	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	admiration	admiration	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	15	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **roll** | participle |  | the royal car *not said here* |  | front of the squadrons |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme along front=Trajectory |
| 2 | **shout** *speech: express* | past | the soldiers |  |  |  |  | as the royal car; with admiration | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «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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