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title: Pelistes sallied forth with his cavaliers and such of the soldiery a… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: Pelistes sallied forth with his cavaliers and such of the soldiery as he could collect, and endeavoured to repel the foe; but every effort was in vain. Who acts: Pelistes, effort. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Expedition of Magued Against Cordova.—defence of 
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Expedition of Magued Against Cordova.—defence of the Patriot Pelistes., sentence 31

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Pelistes sallied forth with his cavaliers and such of the soldiery as he could collect, and endeavoured to repel the foe; but every effort was in vain.

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**Who acts:** Pelistes, effort · **What happens:** sally, collect, endeavour, repel, be · **To what, where:** such soldiery, foe

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This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Expedition of Magued Against Cordova.—defence of the Patriot Pelistes.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Pelistes, effort), 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:pg77685:24:31
# text = Pelistes sallied forth with his cavaliers and such of the soldiery as he could collect, and endeavoured to repel the foe; but every effort was in vain.
1	Pelistes	Pelistes	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	sallied	sally	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	with	with	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	cavaliers	cavalier	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
8	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	11	case	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	soldiery	soldiery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
12	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
13	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
14	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	15	aux	_	_
15	collect	collect	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	11	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	endeavoured	endeavour	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	repel	repel	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	xcomp	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	foe	foe	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	29	punct	_	_
24	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	29	cc	_	_
25	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	26	det	_	_
26	effort	effort	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nsubj	_	_
27	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	29	cop	_	_
28	in	in	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	vain	vain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	2	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **sally** | past | Pelistes |  |  |  |  | with Pelistes's cavaliers and the such soldiery; forth *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **collect** | could | Pelistes | the such soldiery *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent soldiery=Theme |
| 3 | **endeavour** | past | Pelistes *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **repel** | to-infinitive | Pelistes *not said here* | the foe |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus foe=Experiencer |
| 5 | **is** | past | every effort |  |  |  |  | vain *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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