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title: The Arab warriors pitched their tents in the vega, on the borders of… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: The Arab warriors pitched their tents in the vega, on the borders of the river, and prepared for a tedious siege. Who acts: Arab warriors. 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 5

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The Arab warriors pitched their tents in the vega, on the borders of the river, and prepared for a tedious siege.

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**Who acts:** Arab warriors · **What happens:** pitch, prepare · **To what, where:** tents, vega

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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 (Arab warriors), 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:pg77685:27:5
# text = The Arab warriors pitched their tents in the vega, on the borders of the river, and prepared for a tedious siege.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Arab	Arab	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	warriors	warrior	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	pitched	pitch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	tents	tent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	vega	vega	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	on	on	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	borders	border	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	prepared	prepare	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	parataxis	_	_
20	for	for	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	tedious	tedious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	amod	_	_
23	siege	siege	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pitch** | past | the Arab warriors | warriors's tents |  | the vega |  | on the borders of the river | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent tent=Theme in vega=Destination |
| 2 | **prepare** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | for a tedious siege | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for siege=Beneficiary |

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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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