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title: The greater part of the chosen troops who had sallied were cut to pi… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: The greater part of the chosen troops who had sallied were cut to pieces in that scene of massacre, for they had been confounded by the tempest of battle which suddenly broke forth around them. Who acts: chosen troops, tempest. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, M
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Muza Besieges the City of Merida., sentence 33

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The greater part of the chosen troops who had sallied were cut to pieces in that scene of massacre, for they had been confounded by the tempest of battle which suddenly broke forth around them.

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**Who acts:** chosen troops, tempest · **What happens:** choose, sally, cut, confound, break · **To what, where:** greater part, scene, pieces, battle

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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 troops, tempest), 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:pg77685:30:33
# text = The greater part of the chosen troops who had sallied were cut to pieces in that scene of massacre, for they had been confounded by the tempest of battle which suddenly broke forth around them.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	greater	great	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	3	amod	_	_
3	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nsubj:pass	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	chosen	choose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	amod	_	_
7	troops	troops	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	3	nmod	_	_
8	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	10	nsubj	_	_
9	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	sallied	sally	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	7	acl:relcl	_	_
11	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	aux:pass	_	_
12	cut	cut	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	pieces	piece	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obl	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	17	det	_	_
17	scene	scene	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
18	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	massacre	massacre	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
21	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
22	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
23	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
24	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	25	aux:pass	_	_
25	confounded	confound	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	conj	_	_
26	by	by	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	tempest	tempest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	battle	battle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	_
31	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	33	obj	_	_
32	suddenly	suddenly	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
33	broke	break	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	acl:relcl	_	_
34	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	33	advmod	_	_
35	around	around	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
36	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	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 | **choose** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **sally** | past · perfect | the chosen troops |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **cut** | past · passive |  | the greater part of the chosen troops |  | that scene of massacre |  | to pieces *result* | vn cut-21.1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: subject=Patient to piece=Result |
| 4 | **confound** | past · perfect · passive | the tempest of battle | pieces *= piece* |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus subject=Experiencer |
| 5 | **break** | past |  | battle |  |  |  | around pieces *= piece*; forth, suddenly *property* | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer which=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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