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title: In a little while the horsemen of the neighbourhood were seen pricki… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: In a little while the horsemen of the neighbourhood were seen pricking along the beach, armed with such weapons as they could find; and the Alcayde and his scanty garrison descended from the hill. Who acts: horsemen. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Of the Loves
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Of the Loves of Roderick and the Princess Elyata., sentence 8

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In a little while the horsemen of the neighbourhood were seen pricking along the beach, armed with such weapons as they could find; and the Alcayde and his scanty garrison descended from the hill.

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**Who acts:** horsemen · **What happens:** see, prick, find, descend · **To what, where:** horsemen, scanty garrison, hill

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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 (horsemen), 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:pg77685:4:8
# text = In a little while the horsemen of the neighbourhood were seen pricking along the beach, armed with such weapons as they could find; and the Alcayde and his scanty garrison descended from the hill.
1	In	in	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	little	little	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	horsemen	horseman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj:pass	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	neighbourhood	neighbourhood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	_
10	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	aux:pass	_	_
11	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	advcl	_	_
12	pricking	prick	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	11	xcomp	_	_
13	along	along	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	beach	beach	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
17	armed	armed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
18	with	with	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	weapons	weapon	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	_
21	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
22	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
23	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	24	aux	_	_
24	find	find	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	28	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
27	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	Alcayde	Alcayde	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	_
29	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
30	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	32	nmod:poss	_	_
31	scanty	scanty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	32	amod	_	_
32	garrison	garrison	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	conj	_	_
33	descended	descend	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	32	acl	_	_
34	from	from	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	hill	hill	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | past · passive |  | the horsemen of the neighbourhood |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **prick** | gerund | the horsemen of the neighbourhood *not said here* |  |  |  |  | along the beach | vn hurt-40.8.3-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **find** | could | horsemen *= horseman* |  |  |  |  |  | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **descend** | participle |  | Alcayde's scanty garrison *not said here* |  | the hill |  |  | vn meander-47.7-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from hill=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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