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title: “They are infinite in number, rapid in the onset, fierce in battle,… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: “They are infinite in number, rapid in the onset, fierce in battle, but confused and headlong in flight.” Who acts: people. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Chapter XIII., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter XIII., sentence 47

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“They are infinite in number, rapid in the onset, fierce in battle, but confused and headlong in flight.”

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**Who acts:** people · **What happens:** be · **To what, where:** number, onset

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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 (people), 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:pg77685:34:47
# text = “They are infinite in number, rapid in the onset, fierce in battle, but confused and headlong in flight.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	infinite	infinite	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	rapid	rapid	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	onset	onset	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	fierce	fierce	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	battle	battle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	confused	confused	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	conj	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	headlong	headlong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	conj	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	flight	flight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** *in a quote* | present | people |  |  | number |  | infinite *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **be** *in a quote* |  | people *not said here* |  |  | the onset |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **be** *in a quote* |  | people *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | 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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