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description: The alcayde, Galo, aided solely by two men, defended a tower and a portion of the wall; killing and wounding, with a cross-bow, more than eighty of the enemy. Who acts: alcayde. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Muza Ben Nozier.—his Entrance Into Spain, and Captu
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Muza Ben Nozier.—his Entrance Into Spain, and Capture of Carmona., sentence 23

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The alcayde, Galo, aided solely by two men, defended a tower and a portion of the wall; killing and wounding, with a cross-bow, more than eighty of the enemy.

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**Who acts:** alcayde · **What happens:** aid, defend, kill, wound · **To what, where:** Galo, tower

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This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Muza Ben Nozier.—his Entrance Into Spain, and Capture of Carmona.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (alcayde), 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:pg77685:28:23
# text = The alcayde, Galo, aided solely by two men, defended a tower and a portion of the wall; killing and wounding, with a cross-bow, more than eighty of the enemy.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	alcayde	alcayde	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
4	Galo	Galo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
6	aided	aid	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	acl	_	_
7	solely	solely	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
8	by	by	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	10	nummod	_	_
10	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
12	defended	defend	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	tower	tower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	portion	portion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	wall	wall	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	killing	kill	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	advcl	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	wounding	wound	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	22	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
26	with	with	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	cross-bow	cross-bow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
30	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp|ExtPos=ADV	32	advmod	_	_
31	than	than	ADP	IN	_	30	fixed	_	_
32	eighty	eighty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	28	nmod	_	_
33	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
35	enemy	enemy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	32	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **aid** | participle |  | Galo *not said here* |  |  |  | by two men; solely *property* | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **defend** | past | the alcayde | a tower and a portion of the wall |  |  |  | with a cross-bow  eighty of the enemy | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tower=Beneficiary |
| 3 | **kill** | gerund | the alcayde *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 4 | **wound** | gerund | the alcayde *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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