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title: At that very hour, and along the shadowy banks of that river, here a… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: At that very hour, and along the shadowy banks of that river, here and there gleaming with the scanty moonlight, passed the fugitive messenger of Count Julian, with the plan of the next day’s treason. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Last Day of the Battle., wit
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Last Day of the Battle., sentence 7

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At that very hour, and along the shadowy banks of that river, here and there gleaming with the scanty moonlight, passed the fugitive messenger of Count Julian, with the plan of the next day’s treason.

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**What happens:** gleam, pass, plan · **To what, where:** fugitive messenger, treason

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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: 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:pg77685:18:7
# text = At that very hour, and along the shadowy banks of that river, here and there gleaming with the scanty moonlight, passed the fugitive messenger of Count Julian, with the plan of the next day’s treason.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
2	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	4	det	_	_
3	very	very	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	hour	hour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
7	along	along	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	shadowy	shadowy	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	banks	bank	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod:unmarked	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	13	det	_	_
13	river	river	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	10	advmod	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	there	there	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	15	conj	_	_
18	gleaming	gleam	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	15	advcl	_	_
19	with	with	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	scanty	scanty	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	compound	_	_
22	moonlight	moonlight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	4	punct	_	_
24	passed	pass	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
25	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
26	fugitive	fugitive	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	messenger	messenger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obj	_	_
28	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	Count	Count	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	30	compound	_	_
30	Julian	Julian	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	34	punct	_	_
32	with	with	ADP	IN	_	34	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	plan	plan	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
35	of	of	ADP	IN	_	40	case	_	_
36	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
37	next	next	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	40	nmod:poss	_	SpaceAfter=No
39	’s	's	PART	POS	_	38	case	_	_
40	treason	treason	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
41	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	24	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **gleam** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  | with the scanty moonlight | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with moonlight=Theme |
| 2 | **pass** | past |  | the fugitive messenger of Count Julian |  |  | hour | with the plan of the next day's treason | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme messenger=Trajectory |
| 3 | **plan** |  |  | the next day's treason |  |  |  |  | nom plan «cognition transitive»: of=patient |

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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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