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title: The archbishop saddled his mule and departed just as the faint blush… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: The archbishop saddled his mule and departed just as the faint blush of morning began to kindle in the east. Who acts: archbishop, faint blush, morning. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Last Day of the Battle., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ever
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Last Day of the Battle., sentence 12

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The archbishop saddled his mule and departed just as the faint blush of morning began to kindle in the east.

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**Who acts:** archbishop, faint blush, morning · **What happens:** saddle, depart, begin, kindle, blush · **To what, where:** mule, east

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This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Last Day of the Battle.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (archbishop, faint blush, morning), 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:pg77685:18:12
# text = The archbishop saddled his mule and departed just as the faint blush of morning began to kindle in the east.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	archbishop	archbishop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	saddled	saddle	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	mule	mule	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	departed	depart	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
8	just	just	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	_
9	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	faint	faint	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
12	blush	blush	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	morning	morning	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
15	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	7	advcl	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	kindle	kindle	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	xcomp	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	east	east	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **saddle** | past | the archbishop |  | archbishop's mule |  |  |  | vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent mule=Destination |
| 2 | **depart** | past | the archbishop *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **begin** | past | the faint blush of morning |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 4 | **kindle** | to-infinitive | the faint blush of morning *not said here* |  |  | the east |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 5 | **blush** |  | morning |  |  |  |  |  | nom blush «state intransitive»: of=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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