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title: There were fifty Moorish soldiers in the garrison; she feared that t… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: There were fifty Moorish soldiers in the garrison; she feared that they would prove treacherous, and take part with their countrymen. Who acts: fifty Moorish soldiers, Frandina, soldiers. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Legend of Count Julian and His Family., w
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Legend of Count Julian and His Family., sentence 85

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There were fifty Moorish soldiers in the garrison; she feared that they would prove treacherous, and take part with their countrymen.

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**Who acts:** fifty Moorish soldiers, Frandina, soldiers · **What happens:** be, fear, prove, take · **To what, where:** treacherous, part

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This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Legend of Count Julian and His Family.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (fifty Moorish soldiers, Frandina, soldiers), 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:pg77685:39:85
# text = There were fifty Moorish soldiers in the garrison; she feared that they would prove treacherous, and take part with their countrymen.
1	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	2	expl	_	_
2	were	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	fifty	fifty	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nummod	_	_
4	Moorish	moorish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	soldiers	soldier	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nsubj	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	garrison	garrison	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	she	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	11	nsubj	_	_
11	feared	fear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
12	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
13	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
14	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	prove	prove	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	advcl	_	_
16	treacherous	treacherou	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	conj	_	_
20	part	part	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
21	with	with	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
22	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	23	nmod:poss	_	_
23	countrymen	countryman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** | past | fifty Moorish soldiers in the garrison |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **fear** | past | Frandina |  |  |  |  |  | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **prove** | would | soldiers *= soldier* | treacherous |  |  |  |  | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent treacherou=Theme |
| 4 | **take** | infinitive | soldiers *= soldier* *not said here* | part |  |  |  | with soldiers's countrymen | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent part=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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