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title: The outposts were feebly guarded; fires were lighted in various plac… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: The outposts were feebly guarded; fires were lighted in various places, as if preparing for feasting; bursts of music and shouts of revelry resounded from different quarters, and the whole camp seemed to be rioting in careless security on the plunder of the land. Who acts: whole camp. A sentence of 
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Muza Besieges the City of Merida., sentence 18

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The outposts were feebly guarded; fires were lighted in various places, as if preparing for feasting; bursts of music and shouts of revelry resounded from different quarters, and the whole camp seemed to be rioting in careless security on the plunder of the land.

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**Who acts:** whole camp · **What happens:** guard, light, prepare, shout, resound, seem · **To what, where:** outposts, fires, various places, revelry, different quarters, careless security

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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 (whole camp), 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:pg77685:30:18
# text = The outposts were feebly guarded; fires were lighted in various places, as if preparing for feasting; bursts of music and shouts of revelry resounded from different quarters, and the whole camp seemed to be rioting in careless security on the plunder of the land.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	outposts	outpost	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux:pass	_	_
4	feebly	feebly	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	guarded	guard	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
7	fires	fire	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
8	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux:pass	_	_
9	lighted	light	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	_
10	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	various	various	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	places	place	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
15	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
16	preparing	prepare	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	advcl	_	_
17	for	for	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	feasting	feasting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
20	bursts	burst	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
21	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	music	music	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nmod	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	shouts	shout	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	revelry	revelry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
27	resounded	resound	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	26	acl	_	_
28	from	from	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	different	different	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	amod	_	_
30	quarters	quarter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	36	cc	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
34	whole	whole	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	camp	camp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	36	nsubj	_	_
36	seemed	seem	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
37	to	to	PART	TO	_	39	mark	_	_
38	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	39	aux	_	_
39	rioting	riot	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	36	xcomp	_	_
40	in	in	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
41	careless	careless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	42	amod	_	_
42	security	security	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obl	_	_
43	on	on	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
44	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	45	det	_	_
45	plunder	plunder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obl	_	_
46	of	of	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
47	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	48	det	_	_
48	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	45	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **guard** | past · passive |  | the outposts |  |  |  | bursts of music *obl*; feebly *property* | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Beneficiary |
| 2 | **light** | past · passive |  | fires |  | various places |  |  | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Product |
| 3 | **prepare** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | for feasting | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for feasting=Beneficiary |
| 4 | **shout** *speech: express* | present |  |  |  |  |  | of revelry | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **resound** | participle |  | revelry *not said here* |  | different quarters |  |  | vn sound\_existence-47.4 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **seem** | past | the whole camp |  |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute |
| 7 | **riot** | to-infinitive · progressive | the whole camp *not said here* |  |  | careless security |  | on the plunder of the land | tree rules |
| 8 | **burst** |  |  | music |  |  |  |  | nom burst «act transitive»: of=patient |
| 9 | **plunder** |  |  | the land |  |  |  |  | nom plunder «possession transitive»: of=patient |

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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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