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title: In this situation the warriors were found by certain Moorish cavalie… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: In this situation the warriors were found by certain Moorish cavaliers, who marvelled much at the traces of that stern and bloody combat. Who acts: certain Moorish cavaliers. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Defence of the Convent of St. George By Pelistes., wit
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Defence of the Convent of St. George By Pelistes., sentence 52

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In this situation the warriors were found by certain Moorish cavaliers, who marvelled much at the traces of that stern and bloody combat.

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**Who acts:** certain Moorish cavaliers · **What happens:** find, marvell · **To what, where:** warriors, situation, traces

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This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Defence of the Convent of St. George By Pelistes.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (certain Moorish cavaliers), 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:pg77685:25:52
# text = In this situation the warriors were found by certain Moorish cavaliers, who marvelled much at the traces of that stern and bloody combat.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	3	det	_	_
3	situation	situation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	warriors	warrior	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
6	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	_
7	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
8	by	by	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	certain	certain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
10	Moorish	moorish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	cavaliers	cavalier	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
13	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	14	nsubj	_	_
14	marvelled	marvell	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	acl:relcl	_	_
15	much	much	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
16	at	at	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	traces	trace	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obl	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
20	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	24	det	_	_
21	stern	stern	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	bloody	bloody	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	conj	_	_
24	combat	combat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** | past · passive | certain Moorish cavaliers | the warriors |  | this situation |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Topic |
| 2 | **marvell** | past | certain Moorish cavaliers |  |  | the traces of that stern combat |  |  | 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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