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title: The cavaliers remained looking upon each other with astonishment. — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: The cavaliers remained looking upon each other with astonishment. Who acts: cavaliers. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Chapter XIV., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter XIV., sentence 25

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The cavaliers remained looking upon each other with astonishment.

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**Who acts:** cavaliers · **What happens:** remain, look

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This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Chapter XIV.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (cavaliers), 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:pg77685:15:25
# text = The cavaliers remained looking upon each other with astonishment.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	cavaliers	cavalier	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	nsubj	_	_
3	remained	remain	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	looking	look	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	xcomp	_	_
5	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	each	each	DET	DT	ExtPos=PRON|PronType=Rcp	4	obl	_	_
7	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	fixed	_	_
8	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
9	astonishment	astonishment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **remain** | past | the cavaliers |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **look** | gerund | the cavaliers *not said here* |  |  |  |  | upon each; with astonishment | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent upon each=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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