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title: A battalion of light Arabian horsemen, led by a Greek renegado named… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: A battalion of light Arabian horsemen, led by a Greek renegado named Magued el Rumi, careered in front of the Christian line, launching their darts, and then wheeling off beyond the reach of the missiles hurled after them. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Last D
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Last Day of the Battle., sentence 35

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A battalion of light Arabian horsemen, led by a Greek renegado named Magued el Rumi, careered in front of the Christian line, launching their darts, and then wheeling off beyond the reach of the missiles hurled after them.

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**What happens:** lead, name, career, launch, wheel off, hurl · **To what, where:** Arabian horsemen, Greek renegado, front, darts, missiles

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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: 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:pg77685:18:35
# text = A battalion of light Arabian horsemen, led by a Greek renegado named Magued el Rumi, careered in front of the Christian line, launching their darts, and then wheeling off beyond the reach of the missiles hurled after them.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	battalion	battalion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	Arabian	Arabian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	horsemen	horseman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	led	lead	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl	_	_
9	by	by	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	Greek	Greek	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	renegado	renegado	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	_
13	named	name	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	acl	_	_
14	Magued	Magued	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	el	El	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	xcomp	_	_
16	Rumi	Rumi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
18	careered	career	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl	_	_
19	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	front	front	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	Christian	Christian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	line	line	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
26	launching	launch	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	18	advcl	_	_
27	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	28	nmod:poss	_	_
28	darts	dart	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
31	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	32	advmod	_	_
32	wheeling	wheel	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	26	conj	_	_
33	off	off	ADP	RP	_	32	compound:prt	_	_
34	beyond	beyond	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	reach	reach	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	obl	_	_
37	of	of	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	39	det	_	_
39	missiles	missile	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	nmod	_	_
40	hurled	hurl	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	39	acl	_	_
41	after	after	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
42	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	40	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **lead** | participle |  | Arabian horsemen  a battalion of light *not said here* |  |  |  | by a Greek renegado | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent by renegado=Destination |
| 2 | **name** | participle |  | a Greek renegado *not said here* |  |  |  | Magued el *xcomp* | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **career** | participle |  | Arabian horsemen  a battalion of light *not said here* |  | front of the Christian line |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **launch** | gerund |  | horsemen's darts |  |  |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent dart=Theme |
| 5 | **wheel off** | gerund |  |  |  |  | then | beyond the reach of the missiles | vn drive-11.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 6 | **hurl** | participle |  | the missiles *not said here* |  |  | after missiles *= missile* |  | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: 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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