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title: The sentinels on the outposts waited until the Christians were close… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: The sentinels on the outposts waited until the Christians were close at hand, and then fled in apparent consternation. Who acts: sentinels, Christians. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Muza Besieges the City of Merida., with its dependency tree and the pragmatic
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Muza Besieges the City of Merida., sentence 25

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The sentinels on the outposts waited until the Christians were close at hand, and then fled in apparent consternation.

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**Who acts:** sentinels, Christians · **What happens:** wait, be, flee · **To what, where:** hand, apparent consternation

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This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Muza Besieges the City of Merida.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (sentinels, Christians), 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:pg77685:30:25
# text = The sentinels on the outposts waited until the Christians were close at hand, and then fled in apparent consternation.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	sentinels	sentinel	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nsubj	_	_
3	on	on	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	outposts	outpost	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	nmod	_	_
6	waited	wait	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	11	mark	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	Christians	Christian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	11	nsubj	_	_
10	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	11	cop	_	_
11	close	close	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	ccomp	_	_
12	at	at	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	hand	hand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
15	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	17	cc	_	_
16	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	17	advmod	_	_
17	fled	flee	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
18	in	in	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	apparent	apparent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	consternation	consternation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **wait** | past | the sentinels on the outposts |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **is** | past | the Christians |  |  | hand |  | close *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **flee** | past | the sentinels on the outposts *not said here* |  |  | apparent consternation | then |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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