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title: Scarce had the first streak of morning light trembled along the sea,… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: Scarce had the first streak of morning light trembled along the sea, however, when he summoned his principal warriors to his tent. Who acts: Scarce. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Chapter XI., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter XI., sentence 32

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Scarce had the first streak of morning light trembled along the sea, however, when he summoned his principal warriors to his tent.

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**Who acts:** Scarce · **What happens:** have, tremble, summon · **To what, where:** first streak, morning light, sea, principal warriors

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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 (Scarce), 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:pg77685:12:32
# text = Scarce had the first streak of morning light trembled along the sea, however, when he summoned his principal warriors to his tent.
1	Scarce	Scarce	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	5	amod	_	_
5	streak	streak	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	light	light	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	_
9	trembled	tremble	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	8	acl	_	_
10	along	along	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
14	however	however	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
16	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	18	advmod	_	_
17	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	summoned	summon	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
19	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
20	principal	principal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	warriors	warrior	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	obj	_	_
22	to	to	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	tent	tent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | past | Scarce | the first streak of morning light |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent streak=Patient |
| 2 | **tremble** | participle |  | morning light *not said here* |  | the sea |  |  | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme along sea=Location |
| 3 | **summon** | past | Scarce | Scarce's principal warriors |  |  |  | to Scarce's tent; however *property* | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent warrior=Recipient |

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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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