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title: The watchman from his turret kept a wary look out over the land, hop… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Defence of the Convent of St. George By Pelistes., sentence 3

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The watchman from his turret kept a wary look out over the land, hoping in every cloud of dust to descry the glittering helms of Christian warriors.

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**Who acts:** watchman · **What happens:** keep, hope, descry, cloud · **To what, where:** wary look, land, cloud, glittering helms, dust

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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 (watchman), 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:pg77685:25:3
# text = The watchman from his turret kept a wary look out over the land, hoping in every cloud of dust to descry the glittering helms of Christian warriors.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	watchman	watchman	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	from	from	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	turret	turret	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
6	kept	keep	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	wary	wary	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	look	look	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
10	out	out	ADV	RB	_	6	advmod	_	_
11	over	over	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
15	hoping	hope	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	conj	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
17	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	18	det	_	_
18	cloud	cloud	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	dust	dust	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	descry	descry	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	advcl	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	glittering	glittering	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	compound	_	_
25	helms	helm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	obj	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	Christian	Christian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	warriors	warrior	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **keep** | past | the watchman from watchman's turret | a wary look |  | the land |  | out *property* | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent look=Theme over land=Location |
| 2 | **hope** | gerund | the watchman from watchman's turret *not said here* |  |  | every cloud of dust |  |  | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot |
| 3 | **descry** | to-infinitive | the watchman from watchman's turret *not said here* | the glittering helms of Christian warriors |  |  |  |  | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer helm=Stimulus |
| 4 | **cloud** |  |  | dust |  |  |  |  | nom cloud «phenomenon 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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