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title: Count Tendero gave the signal for assault, and the Christians rushed… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: Count Tendero gave the signal for assault, and the Christians rushed confidently forward. Who acts: you, Tendero, 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 pragmatics of every clause.
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Muza Besieges the City of Merida., sentence 26

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Count Tendero gave the signal for assault, and the Christians rushed confidently forward.

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**Who acts:** you, Tendero, Christians · **What happens:** count, give, rush · **To what, where:** signal

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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 (you, Tendero, 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:pg77685:30:26
# text = Count Tendero gave the signal for assault, and the Christians rushed confidently forward.
1	Count	count	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	Tendero	Tendero	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	gave	give	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	1	ccomp	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	signal	signal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	assault	assault	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
9	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
11	Christians	Christian	PROPN	NNPS	Number=Plur	12	nsubj	_	_
12	rushed	rush	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
13	confidently	confidently	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
14	forward	forward	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **count** | imperative | you *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn characterize-29.2 «NP V NP to be ADJ»: agent=Agent clause=Attribute |
| 2 | **give** | past | Tendero | the signal |  |  |  | for assault | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent signal=Theme for assault=Asset |
| 3 | **rush** | past | the Christians |  |  |  |  | confidently, forward *property* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «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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