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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Defence of the Convent of St. George By Pelistes., sentence 45

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They paused repeatedly to take breath; regarding each other with wonder and admiration.

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**Who acts:** warriors · **What happens:** pause, take, regard · **To what, where:** breath

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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 (warriors), 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:pg77685:25:45
# text = They paused repeatedly to take breath; regarding each other with wonder and admiration.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	paused	pause	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	repeatedly	repeatedly	ADV	RB	_	2	advmod	_	_
4	to	to	PART	TO	_	5	mark	_	_
5	take	take	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	2	advcl	_	_
6	breath	breath	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
8	regarding	regard	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	case	_	_
9	each	each	DET	DT	ExtPos=PRON|PronType=Rcp	2	obl	_	_
10	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	fixed	_	_
11	with	with	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	wonder	wonder	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	admiration	admiration	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pause** | past | warriors *= warrior* |  |  |  |  | regard each; with wonder and admiration; repeatedly *property* | vn linger-53.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **take** | to-infinitive | warriors *= warrior* *not said here* | breath |  |  |  |  | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent breath=Theme |
| 3 | **regard** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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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