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title: His surcoat was of like colour and adornment, and the plumes that wa… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: His surcoat was of like colour and adornment, and the plumes that waved above his burnished helmet were of the purest white. Who acts: surcoat, plumes. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Battle of Calpe.—fate of Ataulpho., with its dependency tree and the pragmati
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Battle of Calpe.—fate of Ataulpho., sentence 12

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His surcoat was of like colour and adornment, and the plumes that waved above his burnished helmet were of the purest white.

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**Who acts:** surcoat, plumes · **What happens:** be, wave, burnish · **To what, where:** burnished helmet

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This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Battle of Calpe.—fate of Ataulpho.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (surcoat, plumes), 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:pg77685:13:12
# text = His surcoat was of like colour and adornment, and the plumes that waved above his burnished helmet were of the purest white.
1	His	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	surcoat	surcoat	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	cop	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	like	like	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	colour	colour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	8	cc	_	_
8	adornment	adornment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	23	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	23	cc	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	plumes	plume	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	nsubj	_	_
13	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	14	nsubj	_	_
14	waved	wave	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	acl:relcl	_	_
15	above	above	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
17	burnished	burnish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	amod	_	_
18	helmet	helmet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obl	_	_
19	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	23	cop	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	23	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	23	det	_	_
22	purest	pure	ADJ	JJS	Degree=Sup	23	amod	_	_
23	white	white	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
24	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | Ataulpho's surcoat |  |  |  |  | of colour and adornment; adornment *conj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **wave** | past | the plumes |  |  | Ataulpho's burnished helmet |  |  | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme above helmet=Location |
| 3 | **burnish** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** | past | the plumes |  |  |  |  | white *property* | 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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