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title: Skirmishing of the Armies.—Pelistes and his Son.—Pelistes and the Bi… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: Skirmishing of the Armies.—Pelistes and his Son.—Pelistes and the Bishop 129 A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Opening, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Opening, sentence 56

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Skirmishing of the Armies.—Pelistes and his Son.—Pelistes and the Bishop 129

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This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Opening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg77685:1:56
# text = Skirmishing of the Armies.—Pelistes and his Son.—Pelistes and the Bishop 129
1	Skirmishing	skirmishing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	Armies	army	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	Pelistes	Pelistes	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	appos	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	Son	Son	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	7	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	—	-	PUNCT	:	_	13	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	Pelistes	Pelistes	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	parataxis	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	Bishop	Bishop	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	conj	_	_
17	129	129	NUM	CD	NumForm=Digit|NumType=Card	16	flat	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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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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