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title: About midnight, the chosen force intended for the sally assembled, a… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: About midnight, the chosen force intended for the sally assembled, and the command was confided to Count Tendero, a Gothic cavalier of tried prowess. Who acts: chosen force. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Muza Besieges the City of Merida., with its dependency 
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Muza Besieges the City of Merida., sentence 22

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About midnight, the chosen force intended for the sally assembled, and the command was confided to Count Tendero, a Gothic cavalier of tried prowess.

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**Who acts:** chosen force · **What happens:** choose, intend, assemble, confide, count, try · **To what, where:** chosen force, command, Tendero

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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 (chosen force), 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:pg77685:30:22
# text = About midnight, the chosen force intended for the sally assembled, and the command was confided to Count Tendero, a Gothic cavalier of tried prowess.
1	About	about	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	midnight	midnight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	chosen	choose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	amod	_	_
6	force	force	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
7	intended	intend	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl	_	_
8	for	for	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	sally	sally	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
11	assembled	assemble	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	command	command	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj:pass	_	_
16	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux:pass	_	_
17	confided	confide	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	conj	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	Count	count	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	advcl	_	_
20	Tendero	Tendero	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
22	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	Gothic	gothic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	cavalier	cavalier	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	appos	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	tried	try	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	27	amod	_	_
27	prowess	prowess	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **choose** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **intend** | participle |  | the chosen force *not said here* |  |  |  | for the sally | vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **assemble** | past | the chosen force |  |  |  | midnight |  | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **confide** *speech: other* | past · passive |  | the command |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: subject=Topic |
| 5 | **count** | to-infinitive |  | Tendero |  |  |  |  | vn multiply-108 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tendero=Theme |
| 6 | **try** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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