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title: While the warriors rested on their arms in grim and menacing tranqui… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: While the warriors rested on their arms in grim and menacing tranquillity among the cliffs, this venerable prelate descended to the Arab tents in the valley, to conduct the capitulation. Who acts: warriors. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Capture of Granada.—su
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Capture of Granada.—subjugation of the Alpuxarra Mountains., sentence 51

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While the warriors rested on their arms in grim and menacing tranquillity among the cliffs, this venerable prelate descended to the Arab tents in the valley, to conduct the capitulation.

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**Who acts:** warriors · **What happens:** rest, menace, descend, conduct · **To what, where:** arms, venerable prelate, valley, capitulation

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This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Capture of Granada.—subjugation of the Alpuxarra Mountains.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (warriors), 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:pg77685:23:51
# text = While the warriors rested on their arms in grim and menacing tranquillity among the cliffs, this venerable prelate descended to the Arab tents in the valley, to conduct the capitulation.
1	While	while	SCONJ	IN	_	4	mark	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	warriors	warrior	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nsubj	_	_
4	rested	rest	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	30	advcl	_	_
5	on	on	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	arms	arm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
9	grim	grim	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	12	amod	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	menacing	menace	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	conj	_	_
12	tranquillity	tranquillity	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
13	among	among	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	cliffs	cliff	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
17	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	19	det	_	_
18	venerable	venerable	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	prelate	prelate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	appos	_	_
20	descended	descend	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	acl	_	_
21	to	to	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
22	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
23	Arab	Arab	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	tents	tent	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	obl	_	_
25	in	in	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	valley	valley	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	30	punct	_	_
29	to	to	PART	TO	_	30	mark	_	_
30	conduct	conduct	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	capitulation	capitulation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	30	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	30	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rest** | past | the warriors |  |  | mountains's arms |  | in grim tranquillity; among the cliffs | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on arm=Location |
| 2 | **menace** | gerund | the warriors *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **descend** | participle |  | this venerable prelate *not said here* |  | the valley |  | to the Arab tents | vn meander-47.7-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to tent=Location |
| 4 | **conduct** | to-infinitive |  | the capitulation |  |  |  |  | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent capitulation=Theme |

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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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