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title: The people of Cordova knew the valiant and steadfast spirit of Pelis… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: The people of Cordova knew the valiant and steadfast spirit of Pelistes, and rallied round him as a last hope. Who acts: people. 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
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Expedition of Magued Against Cordova.—defence of the Patriot Pelistes., sentence 5

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The people of Cordova knew the valiant and steadfast spirit of Pelistes, and rallied round him as a last hope.

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**Who acts:** people · **What happens:** know, rally round · **To what, where:** valiant spirit, Pelistes

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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 (people), 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:pg77685:24:5
# text = The people of Cordova knew the valiant and steadfast spirit of Pelistes, and rallied round him as a last hope.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Cordova	Cordova	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	knew	know	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
7	valiant	valiant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
8	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	9	cc	_	_
9	steadfast	steadfast	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	conj	_	_
10	spirit	spirit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	_
11	of	of	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	Pelistes	Pelistes	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
15	rallied	rally	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
16	round	round	ADV	RB	_	17	advmod	_	_
17	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	obj	_	_
18	as	as	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
19	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	21	det	_	_
20	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	hope	hope	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **know** | past | the people of Cordova | the valiant spirit of Pelistes |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer spirit=Stimulus |
| 2 | **rally round** | past | the people of Cordova *not said here* | Pelistes |  |  |  | as a last hope | 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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