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title: The enemy entered pell-mell with them, fighting from aisle to aisle,… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: The enemy entered pell-mell with them, fighting from aisle to aisle, from altar to altar, and in the courts and cloisters of the convent. Who acts: enemy, pell. 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 56

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The enemy entered pell-mell with them, fighting from aisle to aisle, from altar to altar, and in the courts and cloisters of the convent.

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**Who acts:** enemy, pell · **What happens:** enter, mell, fight · **To what, where:** courts, aisle

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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 (enemy, pell), 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:pg77685:25:56
# text = The enemy entered pell-mell with them, fighting from aisle to aisle, from altar to altar, and in the courts and cloisters of the convent.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	enemy	enemy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	entered	enter	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	pell	pell	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	-	-	PUNCT	HYPH	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	mell	mell	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	ccomp	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
10	fighting	fight	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
11	from	from	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
12	aisle	aisle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
13	to	to	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
14	aisle	aisle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
16	from	from	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	altar	altar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	_
18	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	altar	altar	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
22	in	in	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
23	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	courts	court	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obl	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	cloisters	cloister	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	conj	_	_
27	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	convent	convent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **enter** | past | the enemy |  |  | the courts and cloisters of the convent |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **mell** | infinitive | pell |  |  |  |  | with cavaliers *= cavalier* | tree rules |
| 3 | **fight** | gerund | pell *not said here* |  |  | aisle |  | to aisle; from altar to altar | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V»: 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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