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title: The Arab invaders were a hundred thousand strong, most of them veter… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: The Arab invaders were a hundred thousand strong, most of them veteran troops, seasoned in warfare and accustomed to victory. Who acts: Arab invaders, most. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Chapter VIII., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clau
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter VIII., sentence 7

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The Arab invaders were a hundred thousand strong, most of them veteran troops, seasoned in warfare and accustomed to victory.

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**Who acts:** Arab invaders, most · **What happens:** be, troops, season, accustom · **To what, where:** warfare

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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 (Arab invaders, most), 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:pg77685:9:7
# text = The Arab invaders were a hundred thousand strong, most of them veteran troops, seasoned in warfare and accustomed to victory.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Arab	Arab	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	invaders	invader	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
4	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	cop	_	_
5	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	hundred	hundred	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	compound	_	_
7	thousand	thousand	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	obl:unmarked	_	_
8	strong	strong	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
10	most	most	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	14	nsubj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nmod	_	_
13	veteran	veteran	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	troops	troops	NOUN	NNS	Number=Ptan	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	seasoned	season	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	parataxis	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	warfare	warfare	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	20	cc	_	_
20	accustomed	accustom	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	conj	_	_
21	to	to	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	victory	victory	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | the Arab invaders |  |  |  |  | a hundred thousand *obl:unmarked*; strong *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **troops** |  | most of invaders |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **season** | participle |  |  |  | warfare |  |  | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **accustom** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | to victory | tree rules |

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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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