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title: Every window and roof was filled with combatants: the very women and… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: Every window and roof was filled with combatants: the very women and children joined in the desperate fight, throwing down stones and missiles of all kinds, and scalding water, upon the enemy. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Chapter XII., with its dependency tr
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter XII., sentence 27

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Every window and roof was filled with combatants: the very women and children joined in the desperate fight, throwing down stones and missiles of all kinds, and scalding water, upon the enemy.

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**What happens:** fill, join, throw down, scald · **To what, where:** window, women, stones, water

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This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Chapter XII.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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:pg77685:33:27
# text = Every window and roof was filled with combatants: the very women and children joined in the desperate fight, throwing down stones and missiles of all kinds, and scalding water, upon the enemy.
1	Every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	2	det	_	_
2	window	window	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	roof	roof	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	conj	_	_
5	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux:pass	_	_
6	filled	fill	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	combatants	combatant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	12	punct	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
11	very	very	ADV	RB	_	12	advmod	_	_
12	women	woman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	obl	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	children	child	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	conj	_	_
15	joined	join	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	12	acl	_	_
16	in	in	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
17	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	19	det	_	_
18	desperate	desperate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	19	amod	_	_
19	fight	fight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
21	throwing	throw	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	6	advcl	_	_
22	down	down	ADP	RP	_	21	compound:prt	_	_
23	stones	stone	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obj	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	missiles	missile	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	23	conj	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
27	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	28	det	_	_
28	kinds	kind	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	31	punct	_	_
30	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
31	scalding	scald	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	21	conj	_	_
32	water	water	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	36	punct	_	_
34	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	36	case	_	_
35	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	36	det	_	_
36	enemy	enemy	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
37	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **fill** | past · passive |  | every window and roof |  |  |  | with combatants; the women and children *obl* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: subject=Patient with combatant=Instrument |
| 2 | **join** | participle |  | the women and children *not said here* |  |  |  | in the desperate fight | vn cooperate-73.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent in fight=Theme |
| 3 | **throw down** | gerund |  | stones and missiles of all kinds |  |  |  |  | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent stone=Theme |
| 4 | **scald** | gerund |  | water |  |  |  | upon the enemy | vn cooking-45.3 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent water=Patient |

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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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