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title: At the hour of midnight they stole forth silently, and, assembling t… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: At the hour of midnight they stole forth silently, and, assembling together, proceeded to what was called the Gate of Cordova. Who acts: merchants. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Muza Ben Nozier.—his Entrance Into Spain, and Capture of Carmona., with its depen
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Muza Ben Nozier.—his Entrance Into Spain, and Capture of Carmona., sentence 33

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At the hour of midnight they stole forth silently, and, assembling together, proceeded to what was called the Gate of Cordova.

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**Who acts:** merchants · **What happens:** steal, assemble, proceed, call · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Muza Ben Nozier.—his Entrance Into Spain, and Capture of Carmona.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (merchants), 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:pg77685:28:33
# text = At the hour of midnight they stole forth silently, and, assembling together, proceeded to what was called the Gate of Cordova.
1	At	at	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	hour	hour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	obl	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
5	midnight	midnight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	_
6	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	7	nsubj	_	_
7	stole	steal	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
8	forth	forth	ADV	RB	_	9	advmod	_	_
9	silently	silently	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	13	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
13	assembling	assemble	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	7	advcl	_	_
14	together	together	ADV	RB	_	13	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	proceeded	proceed	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	13	acl	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	what	what	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	16	obl	_	_
19	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	aux:pass	_	_
20	called	call	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	18	acl:relcl	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	Gate	Gate	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	20	xcomp	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	Cordova	Cordova	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	7	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **steal** | past | merchants *= merchant* |  |  |  | hour | silently *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **assemble** | gerund | merchants *= merchant* *not said here* |  |  |  |  | together *property* | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **proceed** | participle |  |  |  |  |  | what *obl* | vn begin-55.1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **call** | past · passive |  |  |  |  |  | the Gate of Cordova *xcomp* | vn initiate\_communication-37.4.2-1 «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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