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title: Count Julian galloped into the city mounted upon a powerful charger,… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: Count Julian galloped into the city mounted upon a powerful charger, himself and his steed all covered with mail. Who acts: you, Julian. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Chapter XII., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter XII., sentence 24

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Count Julian galloped into the city mounted upon a powerful charger, himself and his steed all covered with mail.

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**Who acts:** you, Julian · **What happens:** count, gallop, mount, cover · **To what, where:** city, powerful charger, Julian

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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 (you, Julian), 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:pg77685:33:24
# text = Count Julian galloped into the city mounted upon a powerful charger, himself and his steed all covered with mail.
1	Count	count	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	Julian	Julian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	galloped	gallop	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	ccomp	_	_
4	into	into	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	mounted	mount	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl	_	_
8	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	powerful	powerful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	charger	charger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
13	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	18	nsubj:pass	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	steed	steed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
17	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	18	nsubj:pass	_	_
18	covered	cover	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	1	parataxis	_	_
19	with	with	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	mail	mail	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **count** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent clause=Attribute |
| 2 | **gallop** | past | Julian |  |  | the city |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into city=Destination |
| 3 | **mount** | participle |  | the city *not said here* |  | a powerful charger |  |  | vn put-9.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent upon charger=Destination |
| 4 | **cover** | participle · passive |  | Julian |  |  |  | with mail | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with mail=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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