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title: At length Pelistes seemed to summon up all his remaining strength to… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: At length Pelistes seemed to summon up all his remaining strength to make a signal blow; it was skilfully parried, and he fell prostrate upon the ground. 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
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Defence of the Convent of St. George By Pelistes., sentence 49

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At length Pelistes seemed to summon up all his remaining strength to make a signal blow; it was skilfully parried, and he fell prostrate upon the ground.

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**Who acts:** Pelistes · **What happens:** seem, summon up, make, parry, fall · **To what, where:** length, remaining strength, signal blow, blow, ground

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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:pg77685:25:49
# text = At length Pelistes seemed to summon up all his remaining strength to make a signal blow; it was skilfully parried, and he fell prostrate upon the ground.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	length	length	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
3	Pelistes	Pelistes	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
4	seemed	seem	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	summon	summon	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	xcomp	_	_
7	up	up	ADP	RP	_	6	compound:prt	_	_
8	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	11	det:predet	_	_
9	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
10	remaining	remaining	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	strength	strength	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obj	_	_
12	to	to	PART	TO	_	13	mark	_	_
13	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	advcl	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	signal	signal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	blow	blow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
18	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	21	nsubj:pass	_	_
19	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	21	aux:pass	_	_
20	skilfully	skilfully	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
21	parried	parry	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	4	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
24	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	25	nsubj	_	_
25	fell	fall	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
26	prostrate	prostrate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	xcomp	_	_
27	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	ground	ground	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **seem** | past | Pelistes |  |  | length |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute |
| 2 | **summon up** | to-infinitive | Pelistes *not said here* | Pelistes's remaining strength |  |  |  |  | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent strength=Recipient |
| 3 | **make** | to-infinitive | Pelistes *not said here* | a signal blow |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset blow=Product |
| 4 | **parry** | past · passive |  | blow |  |  |  | skilfully *property* | tree rules |
| 5 | **fall** | past | Pelistes |  |  | the ground |  | prostrate *property* | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme upon ground=Location |

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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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