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title: A chosen band of Christian horsemen, splendidly armed, appeared to w… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: A chosen band of Christian horsemen, splendidly armed, appeared to wait upon her as a mere guard of honour. Who acts: chosen band. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Of the Loves of Roderick and the Princess Elyata., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of 
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Of the Loves of Roderick and the Princess Elyata., sentence 25

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A chosen band of Christian horsemen, splendidly armed, appeared to wait upon her as a mere guard of honour.

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**Who acts:** chosen band · **What happens:** choose, appear, wait

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This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Of the Loves of Roderick and the Princess Elyata.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (chosen band), 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:pg77685:4:25
# text = A chosen band of Christian horsemen, splendidly armed, appeared to wait upon her as a mere guard of honour.
1	A	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	chosen	choose	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	amod	_	_
3	band	band	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	Christian	Christian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	horsemen	horseman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	splendidly	splendidly	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	armed	armed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
11	appeared	appear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	wait	wait	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	xcomp	_	_
14	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	her	she	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Fem|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obl	_	_
16	as	as	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	mere	mere	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	guard	guard	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	honour	honour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **choose** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **appear** | past | a chosen band of Christian horsemen |  |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute |
| 3 | **wait** | to-infinitive | a chosen band of Christian horsemen *not said here* |  |  |  |  | upon band; as a mere guard of honour | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon she=Location |

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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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