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title: While the Moslem army lay encamped before the place, it was joined b… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: While the Moslem army lay encamped before the place, it was joined by Magued the renegado and Count Julian the traitor, with one thousand horsemen; most of them recreant Christians, base betrayers of their country, and more savage in their warfare than the Arabs of the desert. Who acts: Magued. A se
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Muza Ben Nozier.—his Entrance Into Spain, and Capture of Carmona., sentence 26

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While the Moslem army lay encamped before the place, it was joined by Magued the renegado and Count Julian the traitor, with one thousand horsemen; most of them recreant Christians, base betrayers of their country, and more savage in their warfare than the Arabs of the desert.

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**Who acts:** Magued · **What happens:** encamp, join, count · **To what, where:** Moslem army, army, Julian

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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 (Magued), 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:pg77685:28:26
# text = While the Moslem army lay encamped before the place, it was joined by Magued the renegado and Count Julian the traitor, with one thousand horsemen; most of them recreant Christians, base betrayers of their country, and more savage in their warfare than the Arabs of the desert.
1	While	while	SCONJ	IN	_	6	mark	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	Moslem	Moslem	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	army	army	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	lay	lie	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	encamped	encamp	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	advcl	_	_
7	before	before	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	place	place	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
11	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
12	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux:pass	_	_
13	joined	join	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
14	by	by	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	Magued	Magued	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	renegado	renegado	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	Count	count	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	conj	_	_
20	Julian	Julian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	traitor	traitor	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
24	with	with	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
25	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	26	compound	_	_
26	thousand	thousand	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	27	nummod	_	_
27	horsemen	horseman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	43	punct	_	_
29	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	33	nsubj	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
31	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nmod	_	_
32	recreant	recreant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
33	Christians	Christian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	43	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
35	base	base	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	compound	_	_
36	betrayers	betrayer	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	nmod	_	_
37	of	of	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
38	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	39	nmod:poss	_	_
39	country	country	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	43	punct	_	_
41	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	43	cc	_	_
42	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	43	amod	_	_
43	savage	savage	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	parataxis	_	_
44	in	in	ADP	IN	_	46	case	_	_
45	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	46	nmod:poss	_	_
46	warfare	warfare	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	43	obl	_	_
47	than	than	ADP	IN	_	49	case	_	_
48	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	49	det	_	_
49	Arabs	Arab	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	43	obl	_	_
50	of	of	ADP	IN	_	52	case	_	_
51	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	52	det	_	_
52	desert	desert	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	49	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
53	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **encamp** | past · passive |  | the Moslem army |  |  | before the place |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **join** | past · passive | Magued | army |  |  |  | the renegado *obj* | tree rules |
| 3 | **count** | infinitive | Magued *not said here* | Julian |  |  |  | with thousand horsemen; the traitor *obj* | 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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