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title: On the following day, the two armies remained regarding each other w… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: On the following day, the two armies remained regarding each other with wary but menacing aspect. Who acts: two armies. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Skirmishing of the Armies.—pelistes and His Son.—pelistes and the Bishop., with its dependency tree and the p
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Skirmishing of the Armies.—pelistes and His Son.—pelistes and the Bishop., sentence 1

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On the following day, the two armies remained regarding each other with wary but menacing aspect.

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**Who acts:** two armies · **What happens:** follow, remain, regard, menace

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This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Skirmishing of the Armies.—pelistes and His Son.—pelistes and the Bishop.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (two armies), 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:pg77685:16:1
# text = On the following day, the two armies remained regarding each other with wary but menacing aspect.
1	On	on	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	following	follow	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	4	amod	_	_
4	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
7	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	8	nummod	_	_
8	armies	army	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
9	remained	remain	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	regarding	regard	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	11	case	_	_
11	each	each	DET	DT	ExtPos=PRON|PronType=Rcp	9	obl	_	_
12	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	fixed	_	_
13	with	with	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
14	wary	wary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
15	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	menacing	menace	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	14	conj	_	_
17	aspect	aspect	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **follow** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **remain** | past | the two armies |  |  |  | day | regard each; with wary aspect | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **regard** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **menace** | gerund | the two armies *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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