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title: The day had not yet dawned, when the sleepless and impatient monarch… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: The day had not yet dawned, when the sleepless and impatient monarch summoned his attendants and arrayed himself for the field. Who acts: sleepless monarch. 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 
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Last Day of the Battle., sentence 8

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The day had not yet dawned, when the sleepless and impatient monarch summoned his attendants and arrayed himself for the field.

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**Who acts:** sleepless monarch · **What happens:** not dawn, summon, array · **To what, where:** attendants, monarch

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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 (sleepless monarch), 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:pg77685:18:8
# text = The day had not yet dawned, when the sleepless and impatient monarch summoned his attendants and arrayed himself for the field.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl:unmarked	_	_
3	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
4	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	6	advmod	_	_
5	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
6	dawned	dawn	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
8	when	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	14	advmod	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
10	sleepless	sleepless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	impatient	impatient	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	conj	_	_
13	monarch	monarch	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	summoned	summon	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
15	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	attendants	attendant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	obj	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	arrayed	array	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	conj	_	_
19	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	18	obj	_	_
20	for	for	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	field	field	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **not** **dawn** | past · perfect |  |  |  |  | yet; day |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **summon** | past | the sleepless monarch | monarch's attendants |  |  |  |  | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent attendant=Recipient |
| 3 | **array** | past | the sleepless monarch *not said here* | monarch |  |  |  | for the field | 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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