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title: He arrived at the gate just at the hour of opening; a foraging party… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: He arrived at the gate just at the hour of opening; a foraging party was entering with cattle and with beasts of burthen, and he passed unheeded through the throng. Who acts: Pelistes, hour, foraging party. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Defence of the Convent
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Defence of the Convent of St. George By Pelistes., sentence 30

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He arrived at the gate just at the hour of opening; a foraging party was entering with cattle and with beasts of burthen, and he passed unheeded through the throng.

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**Who acts:** Pelistes, hour, foraging party · **What happens:** arrive, open, forage, enter, pass · **To what, where:** gate, throng

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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, hour, foraging party), 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:pg77685:25:30
# text = He arrived at the gate just at the hour of opening; a foraging party was entering with cattle and with beasts of burthen, and he passed unheeded through the throng.
1	He	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	arrived	arrive	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	at	at	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	gate	gate	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
6	just	just	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
7	at	at	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	hour	hour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl:unmarked	_	_
10	of	of	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
11	opening	open	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	9	acl	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
13	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	foraging	forage	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	15	amod	_	_
15	party	party	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
16	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	entering	enter	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
18	with	with	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	cattle	cattle	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	with	with	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	beasts	beast	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	19	conj	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	burthen	burthen	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
26	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
27	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	28	nsubj	_	_
28	passed	pass	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
29	unheeded	unheeded	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	xcomp	_	_
30	through	through	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	throng	throng	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **arrive** | past | Pelistes |  |  | the gate | hour |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **open** | gerund | the hour *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn spatial\_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **forage** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn rummage-35.5-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **enter** | past · progressive | a foraging party |  |  |  |  | with cattle and beasts of burthen | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **pass** | past | Pelistes |  |  | the throng |  | unheeded *property* | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme through throng=Location |

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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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