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title: He made a hasty levy, and took the field with a scantily equipped an… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: He made a hasty levy, and took the field with a scantily equipped and undisciplined host, but was easily routed and made prisoner, and the whole kingdom submitted to Don Roderick. Who acts: arm. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, The Rise of Don Roderick.—his Gove
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, The Rise of Don Roderick.—his Government., sentence 9

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He made a hasty levy, and took the field with a scantily equipped and undisciplined host, but was easily routed and made prisoner, and the whole kingdom submitted to Don Roderick.

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**Who acts:** arm · **What happens:** make, take, equip, rout, submit · **To what, where:** hasty levy, field, prisoner, whole kingdom

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This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, The Rise of Don Roderick.—his Government.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (arm), 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:pg77685:3:9
# text = He made a hasty levy, and took the field with a scantily equipped and undisciplined host, but was easily routed and made prisoner, and the whole kingdom submitted to Don Roderick.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	hasty	hasty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	levy	levy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	field	field	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	_
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
13	scantily	scantily	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
14	equipped	equip	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	17	amod	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	undisciplined	undisciplined	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	conj	_	_
17	host	host	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
19	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
20	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	aux:pass	_	_
21	easily	easily	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
22	routed	rout	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	parataxis	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	made	make	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	conj	_	_
25	prisoner	prisoner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	kingdom	kingdom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	parataxis	_	_
31	submitted	submit	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	30	acl	_	_
32	to	to	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	Don	Don	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	obl:agent	_	_
34	Roderick	Roderick	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	33	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past | arm | a hasty levy |  |  |  | the whole kingdom *parataxis* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent levy=Product |
| 2 | **take** | past | arm *not said here* | the field |  |  |  | with a scantily equipped host | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent field=Theme |
| 3 | **equip** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **rout** | past · passive |  |  |  |  |  | easily *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **make** | participle |  | prisoner |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
| 6 | **submit** | participle |  | the whole kingdom *not said here* |  |  |  | Don *obl:agent* | vn acquiesce-95.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |

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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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