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title: He ordered the trumpets to call off the troops from the carnage, and… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: He ordered the trumpets to call off the troops from the carnage, and extended grace to all the surviving inhabitants. Who acts: veteran, trumpets. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Chapter VI., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter VI., sentence 31

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He ordered the trumpets to call off the troops from the carnage, and extended grace to all the surviving inhabitants.

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**Who acts:** veteran, trumpets · **What happens:** order, call off · **To what, where:** trumpets, troops, carnage

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This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Chapter VI.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (veteran, trumpets), 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:pg77685:27:31
# text = He ordered the trumpets to call off the troops from the carnage, and extended grace to all the surviving inhabitants.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	ordered	order	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	trumpets	trumpet	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obj	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	call	call	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	xcomp	_	_
7	off	off	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	troops	troops	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	6	obj	_	_
10	from	from	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	carnage	carnage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	extended	extended	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	grace	grace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	parataxis	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
18	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	21	det:predet	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	surviving	surviving	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	inhabitants	inhabitant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **order** | past | veteran | the trumpets |  |  |  | extended grace to all surviving inhabitants *parataxis* | vn order-58.3-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Agent trumpet=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **call off** *speech: assert* *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the trumpets *not said here* | the troops |  | the carnage |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent troops=Theme from carnage=Source |

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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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