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title: Shifting his ground continually, he wearied his antagonist, who was… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: Shifting his ground continually, he wearied his antagonist, who was growing weaker and weaker from the loss of blood. Who acts: renegado, antagonist. 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
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Defence of the Convent of St. George By Pelistes., sentence 48

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Shifting his ground continually, he wearied his antagonist, who was growing weaker and weaker from the loss of blood.

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**Who acts:** renegado, antagonist · **What happens:** shift, weary, grow · **To what, where:** ground, antagonist

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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 (renegado, antagonist), 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:pg77685:25:48
# text = Shifting his ground continually, he wearied his antagonist, who was growing weaker and weaker from the loss of blood.
1	Shifting	shift	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
2	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	3	nmod:poss	_	_
3	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	_
4	continually	continually	ADV	RB	_	1	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
6	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	wearied	weary	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
9	antagonist	antagonist	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	13	nsubj	_	_
12	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	growing	grow	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	9	acl	_	_
14	weaker	weak	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	13	xcomp	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	weaker	weak	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	14	conj	_	_
17	from	from	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
19	loss	loss	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
20	of	of	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
21	blood	blood	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **shift** | gerund | renegado *not said here* | renegado's ground |  |  |  | continually *property* | vn caused\_calibratable\_cos-45.6.2-1 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Causer ground=Patient |
| 2 | **weary** | past | renegado | renegado's antagonist |  |  |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus antagonist=Experiencer |
| 3 | **grow** | past · progressive | renegado's antagonist |  |  |  |  | weak *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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