---
title: And Pelistes said, “In the name of God, I charge thee, man unknown!… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: And Pelistes said, “In the name of God, I charge thee, man unknown! to answer. Who acts: Pelistes. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Meeting Between the Patriot Pelistes and the Traitor Julian., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
---

<!-- md -->
[Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) · [this page in HTML](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77685/26/27/)

<!-- crumbs -->
[home](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/) / [corpora](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/) / [tales](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/) / [Legends of the conquest of Spain](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77685/) / [Meeting Between the Patriot Pelistes a…](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77685/26/) / 27

# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Meeting Between the Patriot Pelistes and the Traitor Julian., sentence 27

<!-- .ven lang=en -->
And Pelistes said, “In the name of God, I charge thee, man unknown! to answer.

<!-- .vintro -->
**Who acts:** Pelistes · **What happens:** say, charge, answer, name · **To what, where:** name, man, thee, God · **Speech:** someone speaks here

<!-- .vabout -->
This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Meeting Between the Patriot Pelistes and the Traitor Julian.. 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.

<!-- .note-en -->
**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg77685:26:27
# text = And Pelistes said, “In the name of God, I charge thee, man unknown! to answer.
1	And	and	CCONJ	CC	_	3	cc	_	_
2	Pelistes	Pelistes	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	8	punct	_	_
5	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	In	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	name	name	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
9	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
10	God	God	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	8	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
12	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
13	charge	charge	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
14	thee	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	13	iobj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obj	_	_
17	unknown	unknown	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
19	to	to	PART	TO	_	20	mark	_	_
20	answer	answer	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	13	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

<!-- .fr -->
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: express* | past | Pelistes |  |  | the name of God |  |  | vn pronounce-29.3.1 «NP V NP PP.manner»: agent=Agent in name=Manner |
| 2 | **charge** *in a quote* | present | Pelistes | man | thee |  |  |  | vn bill-54.5-1 «NP V NP NP.asset»: agent=Agent thou=Recipient man=Asset |
| 3 | **answer** *speech: assert* *in a quote* | to-infinitive | Pelistes *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **name** *in a quote* |  |  | God |  |  |  |  | nom name «communication transitive»: of=patient |

<!-- .note -->
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.

<!-- div src -->

**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.

<!-- /div -->

<!-- pn -->
- ← previous: [sentence 26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77685/26/26/)
- next →: [sentence 28](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77685/26/28/)
- ↑ back to [Meeting Between the Patriot Pelistes and the Traitor Julian.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77685/26/)