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title: The words of Pelistes roused the spirits of many of the cavaliers; o… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: The words of Pelistes roused the spirits of many of the cavaliers; others, however, remained full of anxious foreboding, and when this fearful prophecy was rumoured about the camp, as it presently was by the emissaries of the bishop, it spread awe and dismay among the soldiery. Who acts: words, othe
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter XIV., sentence 42

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The words of Pelistes roused the spirits of many of the cavaliers; others, however, remained full of anxious foreboding, and when this fearful prophecy was rumoured about the camp, as it presently was by the emissaries of the bishop, it spread awe and dismay among the soldiery.

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**Who acts:** words, others, prophecy · **What happens:** rouse, remain, rumour, be, spread, word · **To what, where:** spirits, fearful prophecy, awe, soldiery, Pelistes

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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 (words, others, prophecy), 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:pg77685:15:42
# text = The words of Pelistes roused the spirits of many of the cavaliers; others, however, remained full of anxious foreboding, and when this fearful prophecy was rumoured about the camp, as it presently was by the emissaries of the bishop, it spread awe and dismay among the soldiery.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	words	word	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Pelistes	Pelistes	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	roused	rouse	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	spirits	spirit	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
9	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
10	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	cavaliers	cavalier	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
14	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	18	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
16	however	however	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
18	remained	remain	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	conj	_	_
19	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	xcomp	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	anxious	anxious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	foreboding	foreboding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	30	cc	_	_
25	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	30	advmod	_	_
26	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	28	det	_	_
27	fearful	fearful	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	prophecy	prophecy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	nsubj:pass	_	_
29	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	aux:pass	_	_
30	rumoured	rumour	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	parataxis	_	_
31	about	about	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	camp	camp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	41	punct	_	_
35	as	as	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
36	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	41	nsubj	_	_
37	presently	presently	ADV	RB	_	41	advmod	_	_
38	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	41	cop	_	_
39	by	by	ADP	IN	_	41	case	_	_
40	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	41	det	_	_
41	emissaries	emissary	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	30	conj	_	_
42	of	of	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
43	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
44	bishop	bishop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
46	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	47	nsubj	_	_
47	spread	spread	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
48	awe	awe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	obj	_	_
49	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	50	cc	_	_
50	dismay	dismay	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	48	conj	_	_
51	among	among	ADP	IN	_	53	case	_	_
52	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	53	det	_	_
53	soldiery	soldiery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	47	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
54	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rouse** | past | the words of Pelistes | the spirits of the many cavaliers |  |  |  |  | vn stimulate-59.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spirit=Patient |
| 2 | **remain** | participle | others |  |  |  |  | full, however *property* | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **rumour** | past · passive |  | this fearful prophecy |  |  |  | about the camp | tree rules |
| 4 | **is** | past | prophecy |  |  |  |  | as the emissaries; of the bishop; presently *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **spread** | past | prophecy | awe and dismay |  | the soldiery |  |  | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent awe=Theme among soldiery=Destination |
| 6 | **word** |  |  | Pelistes |  |  |  |  | nom word «communication transitive»: of=patient |

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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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