--- title: They were arrayed in white garments of foreign or antiquated fashion… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics description: They were arrayed in white garments of foreign or antiquated fashion, which swept the ground, and were cinctured with girdles, wrought with the signs of the zodiac, from which were suspended enormous bunches of keys of every variety of form. Who acts: foreign antiquated fashion. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (foreign antiquated fashion), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg77685:7:6 # text = They were arrayed in white garments of foreign or antiquated fashion, which swept the ground, and were cinctured with girdles, wrought with the signs of the zodiac, from which were suspended enormous bunches of keys of every variety of form. 1 They they PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 2 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 aux:pass _ _ 3 arrayed array VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 0 root _ _ 4 in in ADP IN _ 6 case _ _ 5 white white ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 6 amod _ _ 6 garments garment NOUN NNS Number=Plur 3 obl _ _ 7 of of ADP IN _ 11 case _ _ 8 foreign foreign ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 11 amod _ _ 9 or or CCONJ CC _ 10 cc _ _ 10 antiquated antiquate VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 11 amod _ _ 11 fashion fashion NOUN NN Number=Sing 6 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 12 , , PUNCT , _ 14 punct _ _ 13 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 14 nsubj _ _ 14 swept sweep VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 11 acl:relcl _ _ 15 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 16 det _ _ 16 ground ground NOUN NN Number=Sing 14 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 17 , , PUNCT , _ 20 punct _ _ 18 and and CCONJ CC _ 20 cc _ _ 19 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 20 aux:pass _ _ 20 cinctured cincture VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 3 conj _ _ 21 with with ADP IN _ 22 case _ _ 22 girdles girdle NOUN NNS Number=Plur 20 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 24 wrought wrought ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 25 with with ADP IN _ 27 case _ _ 26 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 27 det _ _ 27 signs sign NOUN NNS Number=Plur 24 obl _ _ 28 of of ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 29 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 30 det _ _ 30 zodiac zodiac NOUN NN Number=Sing 27 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 32 from from ADP IN _ 33 case _ _ 33 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 35 obl _ _ 34 were be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 35 aux:pass _ _ 35 suspended suspend VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 20 conj _ _ 36 enormous enormous ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 37 amod _ _ 37 bunches bunch NOUN NNS Number=Plur 35 obj _ _ 38 of of ADP IN _ 39 case _ _ 39 keys key NOUN NNS Number=Plur 37 nmod _ _ 40 of of ADP IN _ 42 case _ _ 41 every every DET DT PronType=Tot 42 det _ _ 42 variety variety NOUN NN Number=Sing 39 nmod _ _ 43 of of ADP IN _ 44 case _ _ 44 form form NOUN NN Number=Sing 42 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 45 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **array** | past · passive | | hairs *= hair* | | white garments of foreign antiquated fashion | | | tree rules | | 2 | **antiquate** | participle | | | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **sweep** | past | foreign antiquated fashion | the ground | | | | | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme ground=Trajectory | | 4 | **cincture** | past · passive | | girdles | | | | | tree rules | | 5 | **suspend** | past · passive | | enormous bunches of keys of every variety of form | | | | which *obl* | vn fire-10.10 «NP V NP PP.source»: bunch=Theme from which=Source | | 6 | **sign** | | | the zodiac | | | | | nom sign «communication transitive»: of=patient | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 5](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77685/7/5/) - next →: [sentence 7](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77685/7/7/) - ↑ back to [Don Roderick Receives an Extraordinary Embassy.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77685/7/)