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title: So saying, he left the camp; nor could the Moslem chieftains help ad… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: So saying, he left the camp; nor could the Moslem chieftains help admiring the honest indignation of this patriot knight, while they secretly despised his renegado adversary. Who acts: God, Moslem chieftains, yon. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Chapter XI., wi
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter XI., sentence 25

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So saying, he left the camp; nor could the Moslem chieftains help admiring the honest indignation of this patriot knight, while they secretly despised his renegado adversary.

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**Who acts:** God, Moslem chieftains, yon · **What happens:** say, leave, help, admire, despise · **To what, where:** camp, honest indignation, renegado adversary · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Chapter XI.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (God, Moslem chieftains, yon), 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:pg77685:12:25
# text = So saying, he left the camp; nor could the Moslem chieftains help admiring the honest indignation of this patriot knight, while they secretly despised his renegado adversary.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
2	saying	say	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	5	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
3	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	_
4	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	left	leave	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	camp	camp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
9	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	14	cc	_	_
10	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	14	aux	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	Moslem	Moslem	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	chieftains	chieftain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
14	help	help	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	5	parataxis	_	_
15	admiring	admire	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	14	xcomp	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	honest	honest	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	indignation	indignation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	22	det	_	_
21	patriot	patriot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	knight	knight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
24	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	27	mark	_	_
25	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	27	nsubj	_	_
26	secretly	secretly	ADV	RB	_	27	advmod	_	_
27	despised	despise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
28	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	30	nmod:poss	_	_
29	renegado	renegado	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
30	adversary	adversary	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | gerund | God *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **leave** | past | God | the camp |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent camp=Theme |
| 3 | **help** | could | the Moslem chieftains |  |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 4 | **admire** | gerund | the Moslem chieftains *not said here* | the honest indignation of this patriot knight |  |  |  |  | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer indignation=Stimulus |
| 5 | **despise** | past | yon | God's renegado adversary |  |  |  | secretly *property* | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer adversary=Stimulus |

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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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