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title: Then there was a vast train of beasts of burden, laden with the plun… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: Then there was a vast train of beasts of burden, laden with the plunder of Spain; for he took with him all the wealth he had collected in his conquests, and all the share that had been set apart for his sovereign. Who acts: vast train, man. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washing
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter XIII., sentence 20

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Then there was a vast train of beasts of burden, laden with the plunder of Spain; for he took with him all the wealth he had collected in his conquests, and all the share that had been set apart for his sovereign.

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**Who acts:** vast train, man · **What happens:** be, lade, take, collect, set apart, plunder · **To what, where:** beasts, wealth, conquests, share, Spain

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This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Chapter XIII.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (vast train, man), 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:pg77685:34:20
# text = Then there was a vast train of beasts of burden, laden with the plunder of Spain; for he took with him all the wealth he had collected in his conquests, and all the share that had been set apart for his sovereign.
1	Then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
2	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	3	expl	_	_
3	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	vast	vast	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	train	train	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	beasts	beast	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	burden	burden	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	laden	lade	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	acl	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	plunder	plunder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	Spain	Spain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	21	punct	_	_
19	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
20	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj	_	_
21	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
22	with	with	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
23	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	obl	_	_
24	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	26	det:predet	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	wealth	wealth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	_
27	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	29	nsubj	_	_
28	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	aux	_	_
29	collected	collect	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	26	acl:relcl	_	_
30	in	in	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
32	conquests	conquest	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
34	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	41	cc	_	_
35	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	37	det:predet	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	share	share	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	nsubj:pass	_	_
38	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	41	nsubj:pass	_	_
39	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	41	aux	_	_
40	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	41	aux:pass	_	_
41	set	set	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	21	conj	_	_
42	apart	apart	ADV	RB	_	41	advmod	_	_
43	for	for	ADP	IN	_	45	case	_	_
44	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	45	nmod:poss	_	_
45	sovereign	sovereign	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
46	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | past | a vast train of beasts of burden |  |  | there | then |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **lade** | participle |  | beasts of burden *not said here* |  |  |  | with the plunder of Spain | tree rules |
| 3 | **take** | past | man | all wealth |  |  |  | with Spain | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wealth=Theme |
| 4 | **collect** | past · perfect | man | all wealth *not said here* |  | man's conquests |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wealth=Theme |
| 5 | **set apart** | past · perfect · passive |  | all share |  |  |  | for man's sovereign; that *nsubj:pass*; apart *property* | vn preparing-26.3-2 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: subject=Patient for sovereign=Beneficiary |
| 6 | **plunder** |  |  | Spain |  |  |  |  | nom plunder «possession 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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