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title: The people of Toledo gazed with astonishment from their walls at the… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: The people of Toledo gazed with astonishment from their walls at the retiring squadrons of the enemy, and scarcely could credit their unexpected deliverance; before night, there was not a turban nor a hostile lance to be seen in the vega. Who acts: people, credit. A sentence of «Legends of the conqu
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter VI., sentence 22

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The people of Toledo gazed with astonishment from their walls at the retiring squadrons of the enemy, and scarcely could credit their unexpected deliverance; before night, there was not a turban nor a hostile lance to be seen in the vega.

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**Who acts:** people, credit · **What happens:** gaze, retire, deliverance, not be, see · **To what, where:** turban, vega

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This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Chapter VI.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (people, credit), 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:pg77685:27:22
# text = The people of Toledo gazed with astonishment from their walls at the retiring squadrons of the enemy, and scarcely could credit their unexpected deliverance; before night, there was not a turban nor a hostile lance to be seen in the vega.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	people	people	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nsubj	_	_
3	of	of	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	Toledo	Toledo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	2	nmod	_	_
5	gazed	gaze	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
6	with	with	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	astonishment	astonishment	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	_
8	from	from	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	10	nmod:poss	_	_
10	walls	wall	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obl	_	_
11	at	at	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
12	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
13	retiring	retire	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	14	amod	_	_
14	squadrons	squadron	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	nmod	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
17	enemy	enemy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
20	scarcely	scarcely	ADV	RB	_	25	advmod	_	_
21	could	could	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	25	aux	_	_
22	credit	credit	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nsubj	_	_
23	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	25	nmod:poss	_	_
24	unexpected	unexpected	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	deliverance	deliverance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	34	punct	_	_
27	before	before	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
28	night	night	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
30	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	31	expl	_	_
31	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	34	cop	_	_
32	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	34	advmod	_	_
33	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	34	det	_	_
34	turban	turban	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	parataxis	_	_
35	nor	nor	CCONJ	CC	Polarity=Neg	38	cc	_	_
36	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
37	hostile	hostile	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	38	amod	_	_
38	lance	lance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	34	conj	_	_
39	to	to	PART	TO	_	41	mark	_	_
40	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	41	aux:pass	_	_
41	seen	see	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	38	acl	_	_
42	in	in	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
43	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	44	det	_	_
44	vega	vega	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	41	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
45	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	5	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **gaze** | past | the people of Toledo |  |  |  |  | with astonishment; from people's walls at the retiring squadrons of the enemy | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent from wall=Theme |
| 2 | **retire** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn resign-10.11-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **deliverance** | could | credit |  |  |  |  | people *nmod:poss*; scarcely *property* | tree rules |
| 4 | **not** **is a** | past |  | a turban nor a hostile lance |  |  |  | a hostile lance *conj* | tree rules |
| 5 | **see** | to-infinitive · passive |  |  |  | the vega |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V» |

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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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