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title: Assembling them one day in the court of the convent, he disclosed to… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: Assembling them one day in the court of the convent, he disclosed to them his purpose. Who acts: Pelistes. 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 of every clause.
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Defence of the Convent of St. George By Pelistes., sentence 9

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Assembling them one day in the court of the convent, he disclosed to them his purpose.

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**Who acts:** Pelistes · **What happens:** assemble, disclose, purpose · **To what, where:** loyalty, court, purpose

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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), 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:pg77685:25:9
# text = Assembling them one day in the court of the convent, he disclosed to them his purpose.
1	Assembling	assemble	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	13	advcl	_	_
2	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	4	nummod	_	_
4	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl:unmarked	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	court	court	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	convent	convent	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
12	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	disclosed	disclose	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	13	obl	_	_
16	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	purpose	purpose	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **assemble** | gerund | Pelistes *not said here* | loyalty |  | the court of the convent | day |  | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent they=Theme |
| 2 | **disclose** | past | Pelistes | Pelistes's purpose | loyalty |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent purpose=Topic to they=Recipient |
| 3 | **purpose** |  | Pelistes |  |  |  |  |  | nom purpose «cognition 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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