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title: Pelistes had brought with him to the camp his only son, who had neve… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: Pelistes had brought with him to the camp his only son, who had never drawn a sword except in tourney. 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 31

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Pelistes had brought with him to the camp his only son, who had never drawn a sword except in tourney.

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**What happens:** bring, not draw · **To what, where:** Pelistes, camp, only son

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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: 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:pg77685:15:31
# text = Pelistes had brought with him to the camp his only son, who had never drawn a sword except in tourney.
1	Pelistes	Pelistes	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj:pass	_	_
2	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	brought	bring	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obl	_	_
6	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	camp	camp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
10	only	only	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	son	son	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
13	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	16	nsubj:pass	_	_
14	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	16	aux	_	_
15	never	never	ADV	RB	PronType=Neg	16	advmod	_	_
16	drawn	draw	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	acl:relcl	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	sword	sword	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obj	_	_
19	except	except	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	in	in	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	tourney	tourney	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **bring** | past · perfect · passive |  | Pelistes |  | the camp |  | with latter; PELISTES's only son *parataxis* | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme to camp=Destination |
| 2 | **not** **draw** | past · perfect · passive |  | PELISTES's only son |  |  |  | a sword *obj* | vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: subject=Beneficiary sword=Result |

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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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