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title: His body was found the next morning, lying among the slain, and tran… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: His body was found the next morning, lying among the slain, and transpierced with half a score of lances. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Muza Besieges the City of Merida., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Muza Besieges the City of Merida., sentence 35

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His body was found the next morning, lying among the slain, and transpierced with half a score of lances.

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**What happens:** find, lie, transpierc, score · **To what, where:** body, slain, lances

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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: 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:pg77685:30:35
# text = His body was found the next morning, lying among the slain, and transpierced with half a score of lances.
1	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux:pass	_	_
4	found	find	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	lying	lie	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
10	among	among	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	slain	slain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	transpierced	transpierc	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	_
16	with	with	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	half	half	DET	PDT	NumForm=Word|NumType=Frac|PronType=Ind	19	det:predet	_	_
18	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	score	score	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	lances	lance	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** | past · passive |  | Tendero's body |  |  | morning |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic |
| 2 | **lie** | gerund |  |  |  | the slain |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent among slain=Location |
| 3 | **transpierc** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | with half score of lances | tree rules |
| 4 | **score** |  |  | lances |  |  |  |  | nom score «cognition 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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