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title: Magued then unlaced the helmet of his vanquished enemy, and seated h… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: Magued then unlaced the helmet of his vanquished enemy, and seated himself on a rock beside him, to recover breath. Who acts: Magued. 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 
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Defence of the Convent of St. George By Pelistes., sentence 51

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Magued then unlaced the helmet of his vanquished enemy, and seated himself on a rock beside him, to recover breath.

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**Who acts:** Magued · **What happens:** unlace, vanquish, seat, recover · **To what, where:** helmet, Magued, rock, 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 (Magued), 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:pg77685:25:51
# text = Magued then unlaced the helmet of his vanquished enemy, and seated himself on a rock beside him, to recover breath.
1	Magued	Magued	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
2	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	3	advmod	_	_
3	unlaced	unlace	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	helmet	helmet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	9	nmod:poss	_	_
8	vanquished	vanquish	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	9	amod	_	_
9	enemy	enemy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	seated	seat	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
13	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	12	obj	_	_
14	on	on	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	rock	rock	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
17	beside	beside	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
20	to	to	PART	TO	_	21	mark	_	_
21	recover	recover	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	conj	_	_
22	breath	breath	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **unlace** | past | Magued | the helmet of Magued's vanquished enemy |  |  | then |  | vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent helmet=Patient |
| 2 | **vanquish** | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **seat** | past |  | Magued |  | a rock |  | beside Magued | vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP»: agent=Location himself=Value |
| 4 | **recover** | to-infinitive |  | breath |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent breath=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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