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title: An arrow whistled by his ear, and two more stuck in the target which… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: An arrow whistled by his ear, and two more stuck in the target which he had thrown upon his back. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Traitorous Message of Count Julian., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Traitorous Message of Count Julian., sentence 35

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An arrow whistled by his ear, and two more stuck in the target which he had thrown upon his back.

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**What happens:** whistle, throw · **To what, where:** arrow, target, back

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This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Traitorous Message of Count Julian.. 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:pg77685:17:35
# text = An arrow whistled by his ear, and two more stuck in the target which he had thrown upon his back.
1	An	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	arrow	arrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
3	whistled	whistle	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	2	acl	_	_
4	by	by	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	ear	ear	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
9	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	11	nsubj	_	_
10	more	more	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	11	advmod	_	_
11	stuck	stuck	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	conj	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	target	target	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
15	which	which	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	18	nsubj:pass	_	_
16	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
17	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	thrown	throw	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	14	acl:relcl	_	_
19	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	back	back	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **whistle** | participle |  | a arrow *not said here* |  |  |  | by page's ear | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by ear=Location |
| 2 | **throw** | past · perfect · passive |  | the target |  | page's back |  | page *nsubj* | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: subject=Theme upon back=Destination |

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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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