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title: The Spanish sentinel walked his pensive round, listening occasionall… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: The Spanish sentinel walked his pensive round, listening occasionally to the vague sounds from the distant rock of Calpe, and eyeing it as the mariner eyes the thunder cloud, pregnant with terror and destruction. Who acts: Spanish sentinel. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washing
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter XI., sentence 28

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The Spanish sentinel walked his pensive round, listening occasionally to the vague sounds from the distant rock of Calpe, and eyeing it as the mariner eyes the thunder cloud, pregnant with terror and destruction.

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**Who acts:** Spanish sentinel · **What happens:** walk, listen, eye · **To what, where:** pensive round, round

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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 (Spanish sentinel), 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:pg77685:12:28
# text = The Spanish sentinel walked his pensive round, listening occasionally to the vague sounds from the distant rock of Calpe, and eyeing it as the mariner eyes the thunder cloud, pregnant with terror and destruction.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	Spanish	Spanish	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	_
3	sentinel	sentinel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	walked	walk	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
6	pensive	pensive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	round	round	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
9	listening	listen	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
10	occasionally	occasionally	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
11	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	vague	vague	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	sounds	sound	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
15	from	from	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
17	distant	distant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	rock	rock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	Calpe	Calpe	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
23	eyeing	eye	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	conj	_	_
24	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	23	obj	_	_
25	as	as	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	mariner	mariner	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	compound	_	_
28	eyes	eye	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	obl	_	_
29	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
30	thunder	thunder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	compound	_	_
31	cloud	cloud	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	appos	_	SpaceAfter=No
32	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
33	pregnant	pregnant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	amod	_	_
34	with	with	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	terror	terror	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
37	destruction	destruction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	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 | **walk** | past | the Spanish sentinel | sentinel's pensive round |  |  |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme round=Trajectory |
| 2 | **listen** | gerund | the Spanish sentinel *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to the vague sounds from the distant rock of Calpe; occasionally *property* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to sound=Theme |
| 3 | **eye** | gerund | the Spanish sentinel *not said here* | round |  |  |  | as the mariner eyes | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=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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