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title: He appeared in Syria with a small train of war-worn followers, and h… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: He appeared in Syria with a small train of war-worn followers, and had no other trophies to show than his battered armour, and a body seamed with scars. Who acts: Cadiz, body. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Chapter XIII., with its dependency tree and the pragm
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter XIII., sentence 32

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He appeared in Syria with a small train of war-worn followers, and had no other trophies to show than his battered armour, and a body seamed with scars.

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**Who acts:** Cadiz, body · **What happens:** appear, have, show, batter, seam · **To what, where:** Syria, other trophies

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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 (Cadiz, body), 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:pg77685:34:32
# text = He appeared in Syria with a small train of war-worn followers, and had no other trophies to show than his battered armour, and a body seamed with scars.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	appeared	appear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Syria	Syria	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
5	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	small	small	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	train	train	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
10	war	war	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	compound	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	10	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	worn	worn	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	followers	follower	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
17	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	19	det	_	_
18	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	trophies	trophy	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	show	show	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	advcl	_	_
22	than	than	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
24	battered	batter	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	25	amod	_	_
25	armour	armour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
28	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	body	body	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj	_	_
30	seamed	seam	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	conj	_	_
31	with	with	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
32	scars	scar	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **appear** | past | Cadiz |  |  | Syria |  | with a small train of worn followers | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in syria=Location |
| 2 | **have** | past |  | no other trophies |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent trophy=Patient |
| 3 | **show** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | than Cadiz's battered armour | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **batter** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **seam** | participle | a body |  |  |  |  | with scars | 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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