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title: Finding there was yet life in the Christian knight, they laid him up… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: Finding there was yet life in the Christian knight, they laid him upon one of their horses, and, aiding Magued to remount his steed, proceeded slowly to the city. Who acts: warriors. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Defence of the Convent of St. George By Pelist
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Defence of the Convent of St. George By Pelistes., sentence 53

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Finding there was yet life in the Christian knight, they laid him upon one of their horses, and, aiding Magued to remount his steed, proceeded slowly to the city.

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**Who acts:** warriors · **What happens:** find, be, lay, aid, remount, proceed · **To what, where:** Magued, steed · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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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:pg77685:25:53
# text = Finding there was yet life in the Christian knight, they laid him upon one of their horses, and, aiding Magued to remount his steed, proceeded slowly to the city.
1	Finding	find	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	advcl	_	_
2	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	3	expl	_	_
3	was	be	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	ccomp	_	_
4	yet	yet	CCONJ	CC	_	5	cc	_	_
5	life	life	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	_
6	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
8	Christian	Christian	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	knight	knight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
11	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
12	laid	lay	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
13	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	12	obl	_	_
16	of	of	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
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	15	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
22	aiding	aid	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	12	advcl	_	_
23	Magued	Magued	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
24	to	to	PART	TO	_	25	mark	_	_
25	remount	remount	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	xcomp	_	_
26	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	27	nmod:poss	_	_
27	steed	steed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
29	proceeded	proceed	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	12	conj	_	_
30	slowly	slowly	ADV	RB	_	29	advmod	_	_
31	to	to	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	12	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **find** | gerund | warriors *= warrior* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | life in the Christian knight *conj* | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 2 | **be** | past |  |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **lay** | past | warriors *= warrior* | Magued |  |  |  | upon one of warriors's horses | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme upon one=Destination |
| 4 | **aid** | gerund | warriors *= warrior* *not said here* | Magued |  |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent magued=Beneficiary clause=Theme |
| 5 | **remount** | to-infinitive | warriors *= warrior* *not said here* | Magued's steed |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 6 | **proceed** | past | warriors *= warrior* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | to the city; slowly *property* | vn begin-55.1 «NP V S\_INF»: 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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