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title: On the morning after the battle, the Arab leader, Taric ben Zeyad, r… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: On the morning after the battle, the Arab leader, Taric ben Zeyad, rode over the bloody field of the Guadalete, strewed with the ruins of those splendid armies, which had so lately passed like glorious pageants along the river banks. Who acts: splendid armies. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest 
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, The Field of Battle After the Defeat.—the Fate of Roderick., sentence 1

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On the morning after the battle, the Arab leader, Taric ben Zeyad, rode over the bloody field of the Guadalete, strewed with the ruins of those splendid armies, which had so lately passed like glorious pageants along the river banks.

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**Who acts:** splendid armies · **What happens:** ride, strew, have, pass, ruin · **To what, where:** bloody field, Guadalete, river banks, splendid armies

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This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, The Field of Battle After the Defeat.—the Fate of Roderick.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (splendid armies), 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:pg77685:19:1
# text = On the morning after the battle, the Arab leader, Taric ben Zeyad, rode over the bloody field of the Guadalete, strewed with the ruins of those splendid armies, which had so lately passed like glorious pageants along the river banks.
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
4	after	after	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	battle	battle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	Arab	Arab	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	leader	leader	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	Taric	Taric	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	ben	ben	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
14	Zeyad	Zeyad	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
16	rode	ride	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
17	over	over	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
19	bloody	bloody	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	field	field	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
23	Guadalete	guadalete	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
25	strewed	strew	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	acl	_	_
26	with	with	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	ruins	ruin	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	obl	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
30	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	32	det	_	_
31	splendid	splendid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	armies	army	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	35	punct	_	_
34	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	35	nsubj	_	_
35	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	32	acl:relcl	_	_
36	so	so	ADV	RB	_	38	advmod	_	_
37	lately	lately	ADV	RB	_	38	advmod	_	_
38	passed	pass	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	35	xcomp	_	_
39	like	like	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	glorious	glorious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	41	amod	_	_
41	pageants	pageant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	38	obl	_	_
42	along	along	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
43	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
44	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	compound	_	_
45	banks	bank	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	38	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ride** | past |  |  |  | the bloody field of the Guadalete | morning |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over field=Trajectory |
| 2 | **strew** | participle |  | the Guadalete *not said here* |  |  |  | with the ruins of that splendid armies | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent with ruin=Theme |
| 3 | **have** | past | that splendid armies |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **pass** | participle | that splendid armies *not said here* |  |  | the river banks |  | like glorious pageants; lately *property* | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme along bank=Location |
| 5 | **ruin** |  |  | that splendid armies |  |  |  |  | nom ruin «state transitive»: of=patient |

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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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