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title: The deep dry channel of a torrent checked his career, and his horse,… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: The deep dry channel of a torrent checked his career, and his horse, stumbling upon the margin, rolled with his rider to the bottom. Who acts: deep dry channel. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Defence of the Convent of St. George By Pelistes., with its dependen
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Defence of the Convent of St. George By Pelistes., sentence 34

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The deep dry channel of a torrent checked his career, and his horse, stumbling upon the margin, rolled with his rider to the bottom.

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**Who acts:** deep dry channel · **What happens:** check, stumble, roll, channel · **To what, where:** career, margin, torrent

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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 (deep dry channel), 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:pg77685:25:34
# text = The deep dry channel of a torrent checked his career, and his horse, stumbling upon the margin, rolled with his rider to the bottom.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
2	deep	deep	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
3	dry	dry	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	channel	channel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	torrent	torrent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
8	checked	check	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	career	career	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	horse	horse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	stumbling	stumble	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
17	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	margin	margin	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	rolled	roll	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	19	acl	_	_
22	with	with	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
24	rider	rider	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	_
25	to	to	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	27	det	_	_
27	bottom	bottom	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **check** | past | the deep dry channel of a torrent | Pelistes's career |  |  |  | Pelistes's horse *parataxis* | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent career=Theme |
| 2 | **stumble** | gerund | the deep dry channel of a torrent *not said here* |  |  | the margin |  |  | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon margin=Trajectory |
| 3 | **roll** | participle |  | the margin *not said here* |  |  |  | with Pelistes's rider to the bottom | vn sound\_emission-43.2 «NP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with rider=Theme |
| 4 | **channel** |  |  | a torrent |  |  |  |  | nom channel «communication 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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