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title: Throwing himself again upon his steed, he abandoned the road and gal… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: Throwing himself again upon his steed, he abandoned the road and galloped across the rugged heights. Who acts: Pelistes. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Defence of the Convent of St. George By Pelistes., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clau
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Defence of the Convent of St. George By Pelistes., sentence 33

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Throwing himself again upon his steed, he abandoned the road and galloped across the rugged heights.

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**Who acts:** Pelistes · **What happens:** throw, abandon, gallop · **To what, where:** Pelistes, steed, road, rugged heights

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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), 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:pg77685:25:33
# text = Throwing himself again upon his steed, he abandoned the road and galloped across the rugged heights.
1	Throwing	throw	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	advcl	_	_
2	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	1	obj	_	_
3	again	again	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	_
4	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	6	nmod:poss	_	_
6	steed	steed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
8	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
9	abandoned	abandon	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	obj	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	_
13	galloped	gallop	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
14	across	across	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	rugged	rugged	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	heights	height	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **throw** | gerund | Pelistes *not said here* | Pelistes |  | Pelistes's steed | again |  | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent himself=Theme upon steed=Destination |
| 2 | **abandon** | past | Pelistes | the road |  |  |  |  | vn leave-51.2 «NP V NP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme road=Source |
| 3 | **gallop** | past | Pelistes *not said here* |  |  | the rugged heights |  |  | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme across height=Trajectory |

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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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