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title: They were suffered to pass the ambuscade in the quarry without moles… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: They were suffered to pass the ambuscade in the quarry without molestation: as they approached the Moslem camp, every thing appeared quiet; for the foot soldiers were concealed in slopes and hollows, and every Arab horseman lay in his armour beside his steed. Who acts: forces, thing, Arab horseman. 
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Muza Besieges the City of Merida., sentence 24

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They were suffered to pass the ambuscade in the quarry without molestation: as they approached the Moslem camp, every thing appeared quiet; for the foot soldiers were concealed in slopes and hollows, and every Arab horseman lay in his armour beside his steed.

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**Who acts:** forces, thing, Arab horseman · **What happens:** suffer, pass, approach, appear, conceal, lie · **To what, where:** forces, ambuscade, quarry, Moslem camp, foot soldiers, slopes

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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 (forces, thing, Arab horseman), 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:pg77685:30:24
# text = They were suffered to pass the ambuscade in the quarry without molestation: as they approached the Moslem camp, every thing appeared quiet; for the foot soldiers were concealed in slopes and hollows, and every Arab horseman lay in his armour beside his steed.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux:pass	_	_
3	suffered	suffer	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	pass	pass	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	xcomp	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	ambuscade	ambuscade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	quarry	quarry	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
11	without	without	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	molestation	molestation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	16	punct	_	_
14	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	16	mark	_	_
15	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	approached	approach	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	Moslem	Moslem	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	camp	camp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
21	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	22	det	_	_
22	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	23	nsubj	_	_
23	appeared	appear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
24	quiet	quiet	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	23	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
26	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	31	mark	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
28	foot	foot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
29	soldiers	soldier	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	nsubj	_	_
30	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	31	aux:pass	_	_
31	concealed	conceal	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	23	conj	_	_
32	in	in	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	slopes	slope	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	obl	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	35	cc	_	_
35	hollows	hollow	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	33	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
37	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
38	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	40	det	_	_
39	Arab	Arab	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	40	amod	_	_
40	horseman	horseman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	nsubj	_	_
41	lay	lie	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	conj	_	_
42	in	in	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
43	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	44	nmod:poss	_	_
44	armour	armour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obl	_	_
45	beside	beside	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
46	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	47	nmod:poss	_	_
47	steed	steed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **suffer** | past · passive |  | forces *= force* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **pass** | to-infinitive |  | the ambuscade |  | the quarry |  | without molestation | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent ambuscade=Theme in quarry=Destination |
| 3 | **approach** | past | forces *= force* | the Moslem camp |  |  |  |  | vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent camp=Theme |
| 4 | **appear** | past | every thing |  |  |  |  | quiet *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **conceal** | past · passive |  | the foot soldiers |  | slopes and hollows |  |  | vn concealment-16 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Patient in slope=Location |
| 6 | **lie** | past | every Arab horseman |  |  | thing's armour |  | beside thing's steed | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in armour=Location |

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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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