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title: They heard the rush and tramp of steeds, the blast of trump and clar… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: They heard the rush and tramp of steeds, the blast of trump and clarion, the clash of cymbal, and the stormy din of a thousand drums. Who acts: attendants, cymbal, thousand drums. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Story of the Marvellous and Portentous Tower., wi
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Story of the Marvellous and Portentous Tower., sentence 65

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They heard the rush and tramp of steeds, the blast of trump and clarion, the clash of cymbal, and the stormy din of a thousand drums.

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**Who acts:** attendants, cymbal, thousand drums · **What happens:** hear, blast, clash, din · **To what, where:** rush, trump

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This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Story of the Marvellous and Portentous Tower.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (attendants, cymbal, thousand drums), 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:pg77685:8:65
# text = They heard the rush and tramp of steeds, the blast of trump and clarion, the clash of cymbal, and the stormy din of a thousand drums.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	heard	hear	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	rush	rush	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
5	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	6	cc	_	_
6	tramp	tramp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	conj	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	steeds	steed	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	blast	blast	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	trump	trump	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	clarion	clarion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	clash	clash	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	cymbal	cymbal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	stormy	stormy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	din	din	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	thousand	thousand	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	29	nummod	_	_
29	drums	drum	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **hear** | past | attendants *= attendant* | the rush and tramp of steeds |  |  |  | the blast of trump and clarion and the clash of cymbal *conj*; the stormy din of thousand drums *conj* | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer rush=Stimulus |
| 2 | **blast** |  |  | trump and clarion and the clash of cymbal |  |  |  |  | nom blast «act transitive»: of=patient |
| 3 | **clash** |  | cymbal |  |  |  |  |  | nom clash «event intransitive»: of=agent |
| 4 | **din** |  | thousand drums |  |  |  |  |  | nom din «event intransitive»: of=agent |

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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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