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title: Pelistes examined the convent, and found it admirably calculated for… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: Pelistes examined the convent, and found it admirably calculated for defence. Who acts: Pelistes. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Expedition of Magued Against Cordova.—defence of the Patriot Pelistes., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Expedition of Magued Against Cordova.—defence of the Patriot Pelistes., sentence 34

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Pelistes examined the convent, and found it admirably calculated for defence.

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**Who acts:** Pelistes · **What happens:** examine, find, calculate · **To what, where:** convent, refuge

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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), 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:pg77685:24:34
# text = Pelistes examined the convent, and found it admirably calculated for defence.
1	Pelistes	Pelistes	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	examined	examine	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	convent	convent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
6	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	7	cc	_	_
7	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
8	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	obj	_	_
9	admirably	admirably	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	_
10	calculated	calculate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	7	advcl	_	_
11	for	for	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	defence	defence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **examine** | past | Pelistes | the convent |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent convent=Theme |
| 2 | **find** | past | Pelistes *not said here* | refuge |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic |
| 3 | **calculate** | participle | Pelistes *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for defence; admirably *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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