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title: Pelistes made no other reply than by drawing his sword, bracing his… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: Pelistes made no other reply than by drawing his sword, bracing his shield, and preparing for defence. 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 cl
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Defence of the Convent of St. George By Pelistes., sentence 40

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Pelistes made no other reply than by drawing his sword, bracing his shield, and preparing for defence.

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**Who acts:** Pelistes · **What happens:** make, draw, brace, prepare · **To what, where:** other reply, sword, shield

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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:pg77685:25:40
# text = Pelistes made no other reply than by drawing his sword, bracing his shield, and preparing for defence.
1	Pelistes	Pelistes	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nsubj	_	_
2	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	5	det	_	_
4	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	reply	reply	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	than	than	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
7	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	8	mark	_	_
8	drawing	draw	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	2	advcl	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	sword	sword	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	bracing	brace	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	conj	_	_
13	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	14	nmod:poss	_	_
14	shield	shield	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
17	preparing	prepare	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	conj	_	_
18	for	for	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	defence	defence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **make** | past | Pelistes | no other reply |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reply=Product |
| 2 | **draw** | gerund | Pelistes *not said here* | Pelistes's sword |  |  |  |  | vn scribble-25.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sword=Theme |
| 3 | **brace** | gerund | Pelistes *not said here* | Pelistes's shield |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **prepare** | gerund | Pelistes *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for defence | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for defence=Beneficiary |

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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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