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title: With these words he put spurs to his horse and sprang among the enem… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: With these words he put spurs to his horse and sprang among the enemy, striking to right and left, cutting down and destroying, while his steed, fierce as himself, trampled upon the foot-soldiers, and tore them with his teeth. Who acts: field. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Wash
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Last Day of the Battle., sentence 44

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With these words he put spurs to his horse and sprang among the enemy, striking to right and left, cutting down and destroying, while his steed, fierce as himself, trampled upon the foot-soldiers, and tore them with his teeth.

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**Who acts:** field · **What happens:** put, strike, cut down, destroy, trample, tore · **To what, where:** spurs, enemy, steed

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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 (field), 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:pg77685:18:44
# text = With these words he put spurs to his horse and sprang among the enemy, striking to right and left, cutting down and destroying, while his steed, fierce as himself, trampled upon the foot-soldiers, and tore them with his teeth.
1	With	with	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	these	this	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
3	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	put	put	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	spurs	spur	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	sprang	sprang	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	conj	_	_
12	among	among	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	enemy	enemy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	striking	strike	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	right	right	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	obl	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	left	left	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	cutting	cut	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	conj	_	_
23	down	down	ADV	RB	_	22	compound:prt	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	destroying	destroy	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	22	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
27	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	29	mark	_	_
28	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	steed	steed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
31	fierce	fierce	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	29	amod	_	_
32	as	as	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
35	trampled	trample	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	29	conj	_	_
36	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	40	det	_	_
38	foot	foot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	38	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	soldiers	soldier	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	35	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
42	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
43	tore	tore	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
44	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	43	obj	_	_
45	with	with	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
46	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	47	nmod:poss	_	_
47	teeth	tooth	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	43	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **put** | past | field | spurs |  | the enemy |  | with this words; to field's horse and sprang | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent spur=Theme among enemy=Destination |
| 2 | **strike** | gerund | field *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to right *result* | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent to right=Result |
| 3 | **cut down** | gerund | field *not said here* | field's steed |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **destroy** | gerund | field *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **trample** | participle | field *not said here* |  |  |  |  | upon the foot soldiers | tree rules |
| 6 | **tore** | past | field *not said here* | spurs *= spur* |  |  |  | with field's teeth | tree rules |

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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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