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title: Continuing to kneel, he confessed himself to that ancient soldier; h… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: Continuing to kneel, he confessed himself to that ancient soldier; having no priest or friar to perform that office in this hour of extremity. Who acts: Prince. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Battle of Calpe.—fate of Ataulpho., with its dependency tree and the
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Battle of Calpe.—fate of Ataulpho., sentence 58

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Continuing to kneel, he confessed himself to that ancient soldier; having no priest or friar to perform that office in this hour of extremity.

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**Who acts:** Prince · **What happens:** continue, kneel, confess, have, perform · **To what, where:** Prince, ancient soldier, priest, office

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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 (Prince), 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:pg77685:13:58
# text = Continuing to kneel, he confessed himself to that ancient soldier; having no priest or friar to perform that office in this hour of extremity.
1	Continuing	continue	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
2	to	to	PART	TO	_	3	mark	_	_
3	kneel	kneel	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
5	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	_
6	confessed	confess	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	6	obj	_	_
8	to	to	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
9	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	11	det	_	_
10	ancient	ancient	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	soldier	soldier	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	having	have	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
14	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	15	det	_	_
15	priest	priest	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
16	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	friar	friar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	conj	_	_
18	to	to	PART	TO	_	19	mark	_	_
19	perform	perform	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	advcl	_	_
20	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	21	det	_	_
21	office	office	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	24	det	_	_
24	hour	hour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	extremity	extremity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **continue** | gerund | Prince *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn continue-55.3 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 2 | **kneel** | to-infinitive | Prince *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **confess** | past | Prince | Prince | that ancient soldier |  |  |  | vn confess-37.10 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent himself=Topic to soldier=Recipient |
| 4 | **have** | gerund | Prince *not said here* | no priest or friar |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent priest=Patient |
| 5 | **perform** | to-infinitive | Prince *not said here* | that office |  |  | hour |  | vn performance-26.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent office=Theme |

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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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