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title: The troops were lightly armed, and freed from every superfluous incu… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: The troops were lightly armed, and freed from every superfluous incumbrance. Who acts: troops. 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 4

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The troops were lightly armed, and freed from every superfluous incumbrance.

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**Who acts:** troops · **What happens:** be, free · **To what, where:** superfluous incumbrance

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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 (troops), 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:pg77685:33:4
# text = The troops were lightly armed, and freed from every superfluous incumbrance.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	troops	troops	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	5	nsubj	_	_
3	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	lightly	lightly	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	armed	armed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	freed	free	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	_
9	from	from	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
10	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	12	det	_	_
11	superfluous	superfluous	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	incumbrance	incumbrance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the troops |  |  |  |  | armed, lightly *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **free** | participle | the troops *not said here* |  |  | every superfluous incumbrance |  |  | vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Causer |

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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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