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title: In the dead of the night the garrison assembled, to the number of ab… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: In the dead of the night the garrison assembled, to the number of about three thousand; the most part mounted on horseback. Who acts: garrison. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Muza Marches Against the City of Seville., with its dependency tree and the pragmatic
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Muza Marches Against the City of Seville., sentence 12

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In the dead of the night the garrison assembled, to the number of about three thousand; the most part mounted on horseback.

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**Who acts:** garrison · **What happens:** assemble, mount · **To what, where:** night, part, horseback

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This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Muza Marches Against the City of Seville.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (garrison), 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:pg77685:29:12
# text = In the dead of the night the garrison assembled, to the number of about three thousand; the most part mounted on horseback.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	garrison	garrison	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
9	assembled	assemble	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	_
14	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	about	about	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
16	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	17	compound	_	_
17	thousand	thousand	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	13	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	3	punct	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	most	most	ADV	RBS	Degree=Sup	21	advmod	_	_
21	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
22	mounted	mount	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	acl	_	_
23	on	on	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	horseback	horseback	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **assemble** | past | the garrison | the night *not said here* |  |  |  | to the number of three thousand | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent night=Theme |
| 2 | **mount** | participle |  | the part *not said here* |  | horseback |  |  | vn put-9.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent on horseback=Destination |

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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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