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title: He had still his faithful though scanty band of cavaliers, and a num… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: He had still his faithful though scanty band of cavaliers, and a number of fugitives of the army; in all amounting to about four hundred men. Who acts: Pelistes. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Expedition of Magued Against Cordova.—defence of the Patriot Pelist
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Expedition of Magued Against Cordova.—defence of the Patriot Pelistes., sentence 14

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He had still his faithful though scanty band of cavaliers, and a number of fugitives of the army; in all amounting to about four hundred men.

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**Who acts:** Pelistes · **What happens:** have, amount

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This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Expedition of Magued Against Cordova.—defence of the Patriot Pelistes.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Pelistes), 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:pg77685:24:14
# text = He had still his faithful though scanty band of cavaliers, and a number of fugitives of the army; in all amounting to about four hundred men.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	still	still	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	faithful	faithful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	xcomp	_	_
6	though	though	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	scanty	scanty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	band	band	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	cavaliers	cavalier	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	fugitives	fugitive	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nmod	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	army	army	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	conj	_	_
23	amounting	amount	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	22	acl	_	_
24	to	to	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
25	about	about	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
26	four	four	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	27	compound	_	_
27	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	28	nummod	_	_
28	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | Pelistes |  |  |  |  | a number of fugitives of the army *conj*; faithful *property* | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **amount** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | to hundred men | vn register-54.1-1 «NP V PP.value»: agent=Theme to man=Value |

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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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