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title: He paced slowly through the vacant streets, and the tramp of his ste… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: He paced slowly through the vacant streets, and the tramp of his steed echoed afar in that silent hour; but no one suspected a warrior, moving thus singly and tranquilly in an armed city, to be an enemy. Who acts: Pelistes, tramp, one. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington I
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Defence of the Convent of St. George By Pelistes., sentence 29

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He paced slowly through the vacant streets, and the tramp of his steed echoed afar in that silent hour; but no one suspected a warrior, moving thus singly and tranquilly in an armed city, to be an enemy.

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**Who acts:** Pelistes, tramp, one · **What happens:** pace, echo, suspect, move, be · **To what, where:** vacant streets, warrior, armed city, enemy

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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, tramp, one), 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:pg77685:25:29
# text = He paced slowly through the vacant streets, and the tramp of his steed echoed afar in that silent hour; but no one suspected a warrior, moving thus singly and tranquilly in an armed city, to be an enemy.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	paced	pace	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	slowly	slowly	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	through	through	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
6	vacant	vacant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	7	amod	_	_
7	streets	street	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	tramp	tramp	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	nsubj	_	_
12	of	of	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	steed	steed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
15	echoed	echo	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
16	afar	afar	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	xcomp	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
18	that	that	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	20	det	_	_
19	silent	silent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	hour	hour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	25	punct	_	_
22	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
23	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	24	det	_	_
24	one	one	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
25	suspected	suspect	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
26	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	warrior	warrior	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
29	moving	move	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	25	advcl	_	_
30	thus	thus	ADV	RB	_	31	advmod	_	_
31	singly	singly	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
32	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	33	cc	_	_
33	tranquilly	tranquilly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	31	conj	_	_
34	in	in	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
35	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	37	det	_	_
36	armed	armed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	37	amod	_	_
37	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
39	to	to	PART	TO	_	42	mark	_	_
40	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	42	cop	_	_
41	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	enemy	enemy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
43	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pace** | past | Pelistes |  |  | the vacant streets |  | slowly *property* | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme through street=Trajectory |
| 2 | **echo** | past | the tramp of Pelistes's steed |  |  |  | hour | afar *property* | vn sound\_existence-47.4 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **suspect** | past | no one | a warrior |  |  |  |  | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent warrior=Attribute |
| 4 | **move** | gerund | no one *not said here* |  |  | a armed city |  | singly *property* | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme in city=Trajectory |
| 5 | **is a** | to-infinitive |  | a enemy |  |  |  |  | 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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