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title: Pelistes, however, read their sufferings in their wan and emaciated… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: Pelistes, however, read their sufferings in their wan and emaciated countenances, and felt more for them than for himself. Who acts: Pelistes, provisions. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Defence of the Convent of St. George By Pelistes., with its dependency tre
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Defence of the Convent of St. George By Pelistes., sentence 7

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Pelistes, however, read their sufferings in their wan and emaciated countenances, and felt more for them than for himself.

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**Who acts:** Pelistes, provisions · **What happens:** read, emaciate, feel, suffer · **To what, where:** sufferings, wan countenances, more

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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 (Pelistes, provisions), 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:pg77685:25:7
# text = Pelistes, however, read their sufferings in their wan and emaciated countenances, and felt more for them than for himself.
1	Pelistes	Pelistes	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	5	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	however	however	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	read	read	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	sufferings	suffering	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	_
8	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
9	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	13	nmod:poss	_	_
10	wan	wan	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	emaciated	emaciate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	conj	_	_
13	countenances	countenance	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
16	felt	feel	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	conj	_	_
17	more	more	ADJ	JJR	Degree=Cmp	16	obj	_	_
18	for	for	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
19	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	obl	_	_
20	than	than	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	for	for	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	himself	himself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	16	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **read** | infinitive | Pelistes | provisions's sufferings |  | provisions's wan countenances |  | however *property* | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent suffering=Topic |
| 2 | **emaciate** | participle | Pelistes *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 3 | **feel** | past | Pelistes *not said here* | more |  |  |  | for provisions *= provision*; than Pelistes | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent more=Location for they=Theme |
| 4 | **suffer** |  | provisions *= provision* |  |  |  |  |  | nom suffering «state intransitive»: poss=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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