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title: For three long and anxious months did the good knight Pelistes and h… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: For three long and anxious months did the good knight Pelistes and his cavaliers defend their sacred asylum against the repeated assaults of the infidels. Who acts: long months, cavaliers. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Defence of the Convent of St. George By 
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Defence of the Convent of St. George By Pelistes., sentence 1

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For three long and anxious months did the good knight Pelistes and his cavaliers defend their sacred asylum against the repeated assaults of the infidels.

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**Who acts:** long months, cavaliers · **What happens:** do, defend, repeat, assault · **To what, where:** good knight, sacred asylum, infidels

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This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Defence of the Convent of St. George By Pelistes.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (long months, cavaliers), 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:pg77685:25:1
# text = For three long and anxious months did the good knight Pelistes and his cavaliers defend their sacred asylum against the repeated assaults of the infidels.
1	For	for	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	7	obl	_	_
3	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
4	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	anxious	anxious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	conj	_	_
6	months	month	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	7	nsubj	_	_
7	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
9	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	10	amod	_	_
10	knight	knight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	_
11	Pelistes	Pelistes	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	appos	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
13	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	cavaliers	cavalier	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
15	defend	defend	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	conj	_	_
16	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
17	sacred	sacred	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	18	amod	_	_
18	asylum	asylum	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obj	_	_
19	against	against	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	repeated	repeat	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	22	amod	_	_
22	assaults	assault	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	obl	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	infidels	infidel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **do** | past | long months | the good knight |  |  |  | for three | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knight=Eventuality |
| 2 | **defend** | present | Pelistes's cavaliers | cavaliers's sacred asylum |  |  |  | against the repeated assaults of the infidels | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent asylum=Beneficiary against assault=Theme |
| 3 | **repeat** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality |
| 4 | **assault** |  |  | the infidels |  |  |  |  | nom assault «act transitive»: of=patient |

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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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