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title: By degrees the provisions of the convent were consumed, and the cava… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: By degrees the provisions of the convent were consumed, and the cavaliers had to slay their horses, one by one, for food. Who acts: degrees, cavaliers, convent. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Defence of the Convent of St. George By Pelistes., with its dependen
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Defence of the Convent of St. George By Pelistes., sentence 5

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By degrees the provisions of the convent were consumed, and the cavaliers had to slay their horses, one by one, for food.

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**Who acts:** degrees, cavaliers, convent · **What happens:** consume, have, slay, provide · **To what, where:** provisions, horses

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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 (degrees, cavaliers, convent), 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:pg77685:25:5
# text = By degrees the provisions of the convent were consumed, and the cavaliers had to slay their horses, one by one, for food.
1	By	by	ADP	IN	_	2	case	_	_
2	degrees	degree	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	_
3	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
4	provisions	provision	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	of	of	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	convent	convent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nmod	_	_
8	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	aux:pass	_	_
9	consumed	consume	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	cavaliers	cavalier	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
14	had	have	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	slay	slay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	xcomp	_	_
17	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	18	nmod:poss	_	_
18	horses	horse	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
20	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	18	appos	_	_
21	by	by	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	20	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	for	for	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
25	food	food	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **consume** | past · passive | degrees | the provisions of the convent |  |  |  |  | vn consume-66 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Asset |
| 2 | **have** | past | the cavaliers |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **slay** | to-infinitive | the cavaliers *not said here* | cavaliers's horses |  |  |  | for food | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Patient |
| 4 | **provide** |  | the convent |  |  |  |  |  | nom provision «communication intransitive»: of=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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