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title: The battle raged until the hour of vespers, when the principal inhab… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: The battle raged until the hour of vespers, when the principal inhabitants held a parley, and capitulated for a surrender. Who acts: battle, principal inhabitants. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Chapter XII., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of ever
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter XII., sentence 28

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The battle raged until the hour of vespers, when the principal inhabitants held a parley, and capitulated for a surrender.

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**Who acts:** battle, principal inhabitants · **What happens:** rage, hold, capitulate · **To what, where:** parley

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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: who acts (battle, principal inhabitants), 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:pg77685:33:28
# text = The battle raged until the hour of vespers, when the principal inhabitants held a parley, and capitulated for a surrender.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	2	det	_	_
2	battle	battle	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
3	raged	rage	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	until	until	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
6	hour	hour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	vespers	vesper	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
10	when	when	SCONJ	WRB	_	14	mark	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	principal	principal	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	13	amod	_	_
13	inhabitants	inhabitant	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	14	nsubj	_	_
14	held	hold	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	3	conj	_	_
15	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
16	parley	parley	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	capitulated	capitulate	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
20	for	for	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	surrender	surrender	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **rage** | past | the battle |  |  |  | hour |  | vn entity\_specific\_modes\_being-47.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **hold** | past | the principal inhabitants | a parley |  |  |  |  | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent parley=Theme |
| 3 | **capitulate** | participle | the battle *not said here* |  |  |  |  | for a surrender | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V»: 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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