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title: The army of Muza was now augmented to about eighteen thousand horsem… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: The army of Muza was now augmented to about eighteen thousand horsemen; but he took with him but few foot soldiers, leaving them to garrison the conquered towns. Who acts: Muza, soldiers. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Muza Besieges the City of Merida., with i
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Muza Besieges the City of Merida., sentence 1

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The army of Muza was now augmented to about eighteen thousand horsemen; but he took with him but few foot soldiers, leaving them to garrison the conquered towns.

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**Who acts:** Muza, soldiers · **What happens:** augment, take, leave, garrison, conquer · **To what, where:** army, soldiers, conquered towns

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This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Muza Besieges the City of Merida.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Muza, soldiers), 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:pg77685:30:1
# text = The army of Muza was now augmented to about eighteen thousand horsemen; but he took with him but few foot soldiers, leaving them to garrison the conquered towns.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	army	army	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Muza	Muza	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	aux:pass	_	_
6	now	now	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	7	advmod	_	_
7	augmented	augment	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
9	about	about	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
10	eighteen	eighteen	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	compound	_	_
11	thousand	thousand	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	nummod	_	_
12	horsemen	horseman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
14	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
17	with	with	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obl	_	_
19	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
20	few	few	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
21	foot	foot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	soldiers	soldier	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
24	leaving	leave	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	16	advcl	_	_
25	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	obj	_	_
26	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
27	garrison	garrison	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	24	xcomp	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	30	det	_	_
29	conquered	conquer	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	30	amod	_	_
30	towns	town	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **augment** | past · passive |  | the army of Muza |  |  | now | to thousand horsemen | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: subject=Patient |
| 2 | **take** | past | Muza |  |  |  |  | with him *= he* | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **leave** | gerund | Muza *not said here* | soldiers *= soldier* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **garrison** | to-infinitive | soldiers *= soldier* *not said here* | the conquered towns |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **conquer** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: 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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