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title: Some were mounted on steeds which they had brought from Africa; the… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: Some were mounted on steeds which they had brought from Africa; the rest he supplied with horses taken from the Christians. Who acts: rest. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Chapter I., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter I., sentence 43

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Some were mounted on steeds which they had brought from Africa; the rest he supplied with horses taken from the Christians.

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**Who acts:** rest · **What happens:** mount, bring, supply, take · **To what, where:** Some, steeds, Africa

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This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Chapter I.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (rest), 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:pg77685:22:43
# text = Some were mounted on steeds which they had brought from Africa; the rest he supplied with horses taken from the Christians.
1	Some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	mounted	mount	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	on	on	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	steeds	steed	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
6	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
7	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
8	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	brought	bring	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl:relcl	_	_
10	from	from	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
11	Africa	Africa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	rest	rest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	supplied	supply	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
17	with	with	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	horses	horse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obl	_	_
19	taken	take	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	xcomp	_	_
20	from	from	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	Christians	Christian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	19	obl:agent	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **mount** | past · passive |  | Some |  | steeds |  |  | vn put-9.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme on steed=Destination |
| 2 | **bring** | past · perfect · passive |  | steeds |  | Africa |  | troops *nsubj:pass* | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.initial\_location»: subject=Theme from africa=Initial\_Location |
| 3 | **supply** | past | the rest |  |  |  |  | with horses | tree rules |
| 4 | **take** | participle | the rest *not said here* |  |  |  |  | the Christians *obl:agent* | vn bring-11.3 «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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