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title: “What can our raw troops do,” said he, “against those squadrons of h… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: “What can our raw troops do,” said he, “against those squadrons of horse that move like castles? Who acts: raw troops, Theodomir, squadrons. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Expedition of Abdalasis Against Seville and the “land of Tadmir.”, with its dependency t
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Expedition of Abdalasis Against Seville and the “land of Tadmir.”, sentence 48

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“What can our raw troops do,” said he, “against those squadrons of horse that move like castles?

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**Who acts:** raw troops, Theodomir, squadrons · **What happens:** do, say, move · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Expedition of Abdalasis Against Seville and the “land of Tadmir.”. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (raw troops, Theodomir, squadrons), 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:pg77685:31:48
# text = “What can our raw troops do,” said he, “against those squadrons of horse that move like castles?
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	What	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Int	7	obj	_	_
3	can	can	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	7	aux	_	_
4	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
5	raw	raw	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	troops	troops	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	7	nsubj	_	_
7	do	do	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	7	punct	_	_
10	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	16	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	against	against	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	those	that	DET	DT	Number=Plur|PronType=Dem	16	det	_	_
16	squadrons	squadron	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	_
19	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	20	nsubj	_	_
20	move	move	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	acl:relcl	_	_
21	like	like	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	castles	castle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** *in a quote* | can | our raw troops |  |  |  |  | What *obj* | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality |
| 2 | **say** *speech: ask* | past | Theodomir |  |  |  |  | against that squadrons of horse | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **move** *in a quote* | present | that squadrons of horse |  |  |  |  | like castles | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |

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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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