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title: As the convoy passed by the convent, the cavaliers looked forth and… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: As the convoy passed by the convent, the cavaliers looked forth and beheld their commander borne along bleeding and a captive. Who acts: cavaliers. 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 t
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Defence of the Convent of St. George By Pelistes., sentence 54

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As the convoy passed by the convent, the cavaliers looked forth and beheld their commander borne along bleeding and a captive.

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**Who acts:** cavaliers · **What happens:** pass, look, behold, bear · **To what, where:** convoy, commander

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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 (cavaliers), 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:pg77685:25:54
# text = As the convoy passed by the convent, the cavaliers looked forth and beheld their commander borne along bleeding and a captive.
1	As	as	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	convoy	convoy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	_
4	passed	pass	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	_
5	by	by	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	convent	convent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	cavaliers	cavalier	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
11	looked	look	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	11	advmod	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	beheld	behold	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
15	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	commander	commander	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	_
17	borne	bear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	16	acl	_	_
18	along	along	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	bleeding	bleeding	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	captive	captive	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	11	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **pass** | participle |  | the convoy *not said here* |  |  |  | by the convent | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by convent=Location |
| 2 | **look** | past | the cavaliers |  |  |  |  | as the convoy; forth *property* | vn stimulus\_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus |
| 3 | **behold** | past | the cavaliers *not said here* | cavaliers's commander |  |  |  |  | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer commander=Stimulus |
| 4 | **bear** | participle |  | cavaliers's commander *not said here* |  |  |  | along bleeding and a captive | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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