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title: The Moslems planted their scaling ladders, and mounted with their ac… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: The Moslems planted their scaling ladders, and mounted with their accustomed intrepidity, but were vigorously resisted; nor could all their efforts obtain them a footing upon the battlements. Who acts: Moslems, efforts. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Chapter X
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter XII., sentence 20

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The Moslems planted their scaling ladders, and mounted with their accustomed intrepidity, but were vigorously resisted; nor could all their efforts obtain them a footing upon the battlements.

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**Who acts:** Moslems, efforts · **What happens:** plant, mount, accustom, resist, obtain · **To what, where:** scaling ladders, Moslems

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This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Chapter XII.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Moslems, efforts), 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:pg77685:33:20
# text = The Moslems planted their scaling ladders, and mounted with their accustomed intrepidity, but were vigorously resisted; nor could all their efforts obtain them a footing upon the battlements.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	Moslems	Moslem	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	planted	plant	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
5	scaling	scaling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
6	ladders	ladder	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	mounted	mount	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
10	with	with	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
11	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
12	accustomed	accustom	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	amod	_	_
13	intrepidity	intrepidity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
16	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux:pass	_	_
17	vigorously	vigorously	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	resisted	resist	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	25	punct	_	_
20	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	25	cc	_	_
21	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
22	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	24	det:predet	_	_
23	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	efforts	effort	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nsubj	_	_
25	obtain	obtain	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
26	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	obj	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	footing	footing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	_
29	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	battlements	battlement	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	28	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	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 | **plant** | past | the Moslems | Moslems's scaling ladders |  |  |  |  | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ladder=Patient |
| 2 | **mount** | participle | the Moslems *not said here* |  |  |  |  | with Moslems's accustomed intrepidity | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent with intrepidity=Instrument |
| 3 | **accustom** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **resist** | past · passive | the Moslems *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vigorously *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **obtain** | could | Moslems's efforts | Moslems *= moslem* |  |  |  | a footing *obj* | tree rules |

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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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