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title: “Well met, señor alcayde!” exclaimed he, “and overtaken in good time. — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: “Well met, señor alcayde!” exclaimed he, “and overtaken in good time. 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 clause.
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Defence of the Convent of St. George By Pelistes., sentence 38

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“Well met, señor alcayde!” exclaimed he, “and overtaken in good time.

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**What happens:** meet, exclaim, overtake · **To what, where:** señor alcayde, enemy · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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: 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:pg77685:25:38
# text = “Well met, señor alcayde!” exclaimed he, “and overtaken in good time.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Well	well	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	3	advmod	_	_
3	met	meet	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	6	punct	_	_
5	señor	señor	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	alcayde	alcayde	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
9	exclaimed	exclaim	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	overtaken	overtake	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	conj	_	_
15	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	time	time	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	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 | **meet** *in a quote* | participle |  | señor alcayde |  |  |  | well *property* | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **exclaim** *speech: express* | past |  | enemy |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent he=Topic |
| 3 | **overtake** *in a quote* | participle |  |  |  |  | time |  | 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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