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title: Plucking a shaft from his quiver, and turning and rising in the stir… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: Plucking a shaft from his quiver, and turning and rising in the stirrups as his courser galloped at full speed, he drew the arrow to the head and launched it at his pursuer. Who acts: page, courser. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Traitorous Message of Count Ju
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Traitorous Message of Count Julian., sentence 37

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Plucking a shaft from his quiver, and turning and rising in the stirrups as his courser galloped at full speed, he drew the arrow to the head and launched it at his pursuer.

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**Who acts:** page, courser · **What happens:** pluck, turn, rise, gallop, draw, launch · **To what, where:** shaft, quiver, stirrups, full speed, arrow, head

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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: who acts (page, courser), 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:pg77685:17:37
# text = Plucking a shaft from his quiver, and turning and rising in the stirrups as his courser galloped at full speed, he drew the arrow to the head and launched it at his pursuer.
1	Plucking	pluck	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	24	advcl	_	_
2	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	shaft	shaft	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	from	from	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	quiver	quiver	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	turning	turn	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	1	conj	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	rising	rise	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	conj	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	stirrups	stirrup	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	obl	_	_
15	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
16	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	courser	courser	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
18	galloped	gallop	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	advcl	_	_
19	at	at	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	full	full	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	speed	speed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
23	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	24	nsubj	_	_
24	drew	draw	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	26	det	_	_
26	arrow	arrow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
27	to	to	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	head	head	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	launched	launch	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	conj	_	_
32	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	obj	_	_
33	at	at	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
34	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	35	nmod:poss	_	_
35	pursuer	pursuer	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
36	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	24	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pluck** | gerund | page *not said here* | a shaft |  | page's quiver |  |  | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent shaft=Theme from quiver=Source |
| 2 | **turn** | gerund | page *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **rise** | gerund | page *not said here* |  |  | the stirrups |  |  | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in stirrup=Location |
| 4 | **gallop** | past | page's courser |  |  | full speed |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at speed=Trajectory |
| 5 | **draw** | past | page | the arrow |  | the head |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent arrow=Theme to head=Destination |
| 6 | **launch** | past | page *not said here* | courser |  | page's pursuer |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent it=Theme at pursuer=Destination |
| 7 | **quiver** |  | page |  |  |  |  |  | nom quiver «feeling intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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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