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title: Pelistes then embraced them one by one, and gave them his benedictio… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: Pelistes then embraced them one by one, and gave them his benediction, and as he did so his heart yearned over them, for he felt towards them, not merely as a companion in arms and as a commander, but as a father; and he took leave of them as if he had been going to his death. Who acts: Pelistes, he
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Defence of the Convent of St. George By Pelistes., sentence 26

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Pelistes then embraced them one by one, and gave them his benediction, and as he did so his heart yearned over them, for he felt towards them, not merely as a companion in arms and as a commander, but as a father; and he took leave of them as if he had been going to his death.

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**Who acts:** Pelistes, heart · **What happens:** embrace, give, do, yearn, feel, take · **To what, where:** cavaliers, benediction, death

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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 (Pelistes, heart), 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:pg77685:25:26
# text = Pelistes then embraced them one by one, and gave them his benediction, and as he did so his heart yearned over them, for he felt towards them, not merely as a companion in arms and as a commander, but as a father; and he took leave of them as if he had been going to his death.
1	Pelistes	Pelistes	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
3	embraced	embrace	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	obj	_	_
5	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	obj	_	_
6	by	by	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
10	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
11	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	iobj	_	_
12	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
13	benediction	benediction	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
16	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
17	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	18	nsubj	_	_
18	did	do	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
19	so	so	ADV	RB	_	22	advmod	_	_
20	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	21	nmod:poss	_	_
21	heart	heart	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nsubj	_	_
22	yearned	yearn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	18	advcl	_	_
23	over	over	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	22	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
26	for	for	SCONJ	IN	_	28	mark	_	_
27	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
28	felt	feel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	conj	_	_
29	towards	towards	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
32	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	33	advmod	_	_
33	merely	merely	ADV	RB	_	28	advmod	_	_
34	as	as	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	companion	companion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	obl	_	_
37	in	in	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
38	arms	arm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	36	nmod	_	_
39	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	42	cc	_	_
40	as	as	ADP	IN	_	42	case	_	_
41	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	commander	commander	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	38	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	47	punct	_	_
44	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	47	cc	_	_
45	as	as	ADP	IN	_	47	case	_	_
46	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	47	det	_	_
47	father	father	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
48	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	51	punct	_	_
49	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	51	cc	_	_
50	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	51	nsubj	_	_
51	took	take	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
52	leave	leave	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	51	ccomp	_	_
53	of	of	ADP	IN	_	54	case	_	_
54	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	52	obl	_	_
55	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	60	mark	_	_
56	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	60	mark	_	_
57	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	60	nsubj	_	_
58	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	60	aux	_	_
59	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	60	aux	_	_
60	going	go	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	51	advcl	_	_
61	to	to	ADP	IN	_	63	case	_	_
62	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	63	nmod:poss	_	_
63	death	death	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	60	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
64	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **embrace** | past | Pelistes | cavaliers *= cavalier* |  |  | then | one *obj* | tree rules |
| 2 | **give** | past | Pelistes *not said here* | Pelistes's benediction | cavaliers *= cavalier* |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient benediction=Theme |
| 3 | **do** | past | Pelistes |  |  |  |  |  | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **yearn** | past | Pelistes's heart |  |  |  |  | over cavaliers *= cavalier* | vn long-32.2-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot |
| 5 | **feel** | past | heart |  |  |  |  | towards cavaliers *= cavalier*; a father *advcl*; merely *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 6 | **take** | past | heart |  |  |  |  |  | vn require-103 «NP V for NP S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Precondition |
| 7 | **leave** | infinitive | heart *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of cavaliers *= cavalier* | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme of they=Initial\_Location |
| 8 | **go** | past · perfect · progressive | heart |  |  | Pelistes's death |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme to death=Initial\_Location |
| 9 | **die** |  | Pelistes |  |  |  |  |  | nom death «event intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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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