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title: Seeing there was no longer any hope, he seized the bridle of a favou… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: Seeing there was no longer any hope, he seized the bridle of a favourite page who was near him, and who was about spurring for the mountains. Who acts: Theodomir, favourite page. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Expedition of Abdalasis Against Seville and the “l
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Expedition of Abdalasis Against Seville and the “land of Tadmir.”, sentence 68

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Seeing there was no longer any hope, he seized the bridle of a favourite page who was near him, and who was about spurring for the mountains.

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**Who acts:** Theodomir, favourite page · **What happens:** see, not be, seize, be, spur · **To what, where:** hope, bridle

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This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Expedition of Abdalasis Against Seville and the “land of Tadmir.”. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Theodomir, favourite page), 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:pg77685:31:68
# text = Seeing there was no longer any hope, he seized the bridle of a favourite page who was near him, and who was about spurring for the mountains.
1	Seeing	see	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	10	advcl	_	_
2	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	1	expl	_	_
3	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	cop	_	_
4	no	no	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	longer	long	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	1	advmod	_	_
6	any	any	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	7	det	_	_
7	hope	hope	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
9	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	seized	seize	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	bridle	bridle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
14	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	favourite	favourite	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	page	page	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	nmod	_	_
17	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	20	nsubj	_	_
18	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	20	cop	_	_
19	near	near	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
23	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	26	nsubj	_	_
24	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
25	about	about	ADV	RB	_	26	advmod	_	_
26	spurring	spur	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	_
27	for	for	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	mountains	mountain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **see** | gerund | Theodomir *not said here* | any hope |  | there |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 2 | **not** **is** | past |  |  |  |  |  | long *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **seize** | past | Theodomir | the bridle of a favourite page |  |  |  |  | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bridle=Theme |
| 4 | **is** | past | a favourite page |  |  |  |  | near son | tree rules |
| 5 | **spur** | past · progressive |  |  |  |  |  | for the mountains; who *nsubj*; about *property* | vn stimulate-59.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |

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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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