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title: As the archbishop passed through the camp, he looked with a compassi… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: As the archbishop passed through the camp, he looked with a compassionate heart on this vast multitude, of whom so many were soon to perish. Who acts: archbishop. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Last Day of the Battle., with its dependency tree and the pragmati
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Last Day of the Battle., sentence 14

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As the archbishop passed through the camp, he looked with a compassionate heart on this vast multitude, of whom so many were soon to perish.

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**Who acts:** archbishop · **What happens:** pass, look, perish · **To what, where:** camp, many

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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), 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:pg77685:18:14
# text = As the archbishop passed through the camp, he looked with a compassionate heart on this vast multitude, of whom so many were soon to perish.
1	As	as	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	archbishop	archbishop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	passed	pass	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	_
5	through	through	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	camp	camp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	compassionate	compassionate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
14	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
15	on	on	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
16	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	18	det	_	_
17	vast	vast	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	multitude	multitude	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	whom	whom	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	10	parataxis	_	_
22	so	so	ADV	RB	_	23	advmod	_	_
23	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	obj	_	_
24	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
25	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	27	advmod	_	_
26	to	to	PART	TO	_	27	mark	_	_
27	perish	perish	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	acl:relcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pass** | past | the archbishop |  |  | the camp |  |  | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme through camp=Location |
| 2 | **look** | past | archbishop |  |  |  |  | with a compassionate heart; on this vast multitude; whom *parataxis* | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent on multitude=Theme |
| 3 | **perish** | past | archbishop *not said here* | many |  |  |  | soon *property* | tree rules |

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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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