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title: While some guarded the gates, others dispersed themselves about the… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: While some guarded the gates, others dispersed themselves about the streets, slaying all who made resistance; and others kindled a fire and made a column of smoke on the top of the citadel. Who acts: some, others. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Chapter VI., wi
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter VI., sentence 25

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While some guarded the gates, others dispersed themselves about the streets, slaying all who made resistance; and others kindled a fire and made a column of smoke on the top of the citadel.

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**Who acts:** some, others · **What happens:** guard, disperse, slay, make, kindle · **To what, where:** gates, towers, all, resistance, fire, column

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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 (some, others), 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:pg77685:27:25
# text = While some guarded the gates, others dispersed themselves about the streets, slaying all who made resistance; and others kindled a fire and made a column of smoke on the top of the citadel.
1	While	while	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	3	nsubj	_	_
3	guarded	guard	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	advcl	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	gates	gate	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
7	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	nsubj	_	_
8	dispersed	disperse	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	themselves	themselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	8	obj	_	_
10	about	about	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	streets	street	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	8	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
14	slaying	slay	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	8	advcl	_	_
15	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	14	obj	_	_
16	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	17	nsubj	_	_
17	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	15	acl:relcl	_	_
18	resistance	resistance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	22	punct	_	_
20	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
21	others	other	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	22	nsubj	_	_
22	kindled	kindle	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	8	conj	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	fire	fire	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
25	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
26	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	22	conj	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	column	column	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obj	_	_
29	of	of	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
30	smoke	smoke	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	28	nmod	_	_
31	on	on	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	top	top	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	citadel	citadel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **guard** | past | some | the gates |  |  |  |  | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gate=Beneficiary |
| 2 | **disperse** | past | others | towers *= tower* |  |  |  | about the streets | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent themselves=Patient |
| 3 | **slay** | gerund | others *not said here* | all |  |  |  |  | vn murder-42.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent all=Patient |
| 4 | **make** | past |  | resistance |  |  |  | who *nsubj* | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent resistance=Product |
| 5 | **kindle** | past | others | a fire |  |  |  |  | vn engender-27.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition fire=Patient |
| 6 | **make** | past | others *not said here* | a column of smoke |  | the top of the citadel |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset column=Product |

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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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