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title: Don Julian sallied forth, and harassed them in their retreat; and so… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: Don Julian sallied forth, and harassed them in their retreat; and so severe was the carnage, that the veteran Musa was fain to break up his camp, and retire confounded from the siege. Who acts: Don, veteran. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Chapter VIII., with i
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter VIII., sentence 15

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Don Julian sallied forth, and harassed them in their retreat; and so severe was the carnage, that the veteran Musa was fain to break up his camp, and retire confounded from the siege.

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**Who acts:** Don, veteran · **What happens:** sally, harass, be, break up, retire, confound · **To what, where:** assailants, retreat, severe carnage, camp, siege

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This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Chapter VIII.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Don, veteran), 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:pg77685:9:15
# text = Don Julian sallied forth, and harassed them in their retreat; and so severe was the carnage, that the veteran Musa was fain to break up his camp, and retire confounded from the siege.
1	Don	Don	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	Julian	Julian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	1	flat	_	_
3	sallied	sally	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	harassed	harass	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
8	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	_
9	in	in	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	retreat	retreat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	15	punct	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
14	so	so	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
15	severe	severe	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
16	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	cop	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	carnage	carnage	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl:unmarked	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
20	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	25	mark	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	veteran	veteran	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
23	Musa	Musa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	appos	_	_
24	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
25	fain	fain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	parataxis	_	_
26	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
27	break	break	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	25	xcomp	_	_
28	up	up	ADP	RP	_	27	compound:prt	_	_
29	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
30	camp	camp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
33	retire	retire	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	27	conj	_	_
34	confounded	confound	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	33	xcomp	_	_
35	from	from	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
37	siege	siege	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sally** | past | Don |  |  |  |  | forth *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **harass** | past | Don *not said here* | assailants *= assailant* |  | assailants's retreat |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus they=Experiencer |
| 3 | **is a** | past |  | the severe carnage |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** | past | the veteran |  |  |  |  | fain *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **break up** | to-infinitive | the veteran *not said here* | Don's camp |  |  |  |  | vn break-45.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent camp=Patient |
| 6 | **retire** | infinitive | the veteran *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 7 | **confound** | participle | the veteran *not said here* |  |  | the siege |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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