--- title: The emir ascended the tower and looked over the battlements, and beh… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics description: The emir ascended the tower and looked over the battlements, and beheld the body of the child, a shapeless mass, on the rocks far below, and the sea-gulls hovering about it; and he gave orders that it should be thrown into the sea, which was done. Who acts: emir, sea gulls, boy. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (emir, sea gulls, boy), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree. **Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong. ## The tree {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg77685:39:160 # text = The emir ascended the tower and looked over the battlements, and beheld the body of the child, a shapeless mass, on the rocks far below, and the sea-gulls hovering about it; and he gave orders that it should be thrown into the sea, which was done. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 emir emir NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 nsubj _ _ 3 ascended ascend VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 tower tower NOUN NN Number=Sing 3 obj _ _ 6 and and CCONJ CC _ 7 cc _ _ 7 looked look VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 8 over over ADP IN _ 10 case _ _ 9 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 10 det _ _ 10 battlements battlement NOUN NNS Number=Plur 7 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 11 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 12 and and CCONJ CC _ 13 cc _ _ 13 beheld behold VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 14 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 15 det _ _ 15 body body NOUN NN Number=Sing 13 obj _ _ 16 of of ADP IN _ 18 case _ _ 17 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 18 det _ _ 18 child child NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 nmod _ SpaceAfter=No 19 , , PUNCT , _ 22 punct _ _ 20 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 22 det _ _ 21 shapeless shapeless ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 22 amod _ _ 22 mass mass NOUN NN Number=Sing 15 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 23 , , PUNCT , _ 26 punct _ _ 24 on on ADP IN _ 26 case _ _ 25 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 26 det _ _ 26 rocks rock NOUN NNS Number=Plur 13 obl _ _ 27 far far ADV RB Degree=Pos 28 advmod _ _ 28 below below ADV RB _ 26 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 29 , , PUNCT , _ 34 punct _ _ 30 and and CCONJ CC _ 34 cc _ _ 31 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 34 det _ _ 32 sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 34 compound _ SpaceAfter=No 33 - - PUNCT HYPH _ 32 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 34 gulls gull NOUN NNS Number=Plur 26 conj _ _ 35 hovering hover VERB VBG VerbForm=Ger 34 acl _ _ 36 about about ADP IN _ 37 case _ _ 37 it it PRON PRP Case=Acc|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 35 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 38 ; ; PUNCT : _ 41 punct _ _ 39 and and CCONJ CC _ 41 cc _ _ 40 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 41 nsubj _ _ 41 gave give VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 42 orders order NOUN NNS Number=Plur 41 obj _ _ 43 that that SCONJ IN _ 47 mark _ _ 44 it it PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 47 nsubj:pass _ _ 45 should should AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 47 aux _ _ 46 be be AUX VB VerbForm=Inf 47 aux:pass _ _ 47 thrown throw VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 41 advcl _ _ 48 into into ADP IN _ 50 case _ _ 49 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 50 det _ _ 50 sea sea NOUN NN Number=Sing 47 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 51 , , PUNCT , _ 54 punct _ _ 52 which which PRON WDT PronType=Rel 54 nsubj _ _ 53 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 54 aux:pass _ _ 54 done do VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 50 acl:relcl _ SpaceAfter=No 55 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **ascend** | past | the emir | the tower | | | | | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme tower=Trajectory | | 2 | **look** | past | the emir *not said here* | | | | | over the battlements | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent over battlement=Theme | | 3 | **behold** | past | the emir *not said here* | the body of the child and a shapeless mass | | the rocks and the sea gulls | | | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer body=Stimulus | | 4 | **hover** | gerund | the sea gulls *not said here* | | | | | about gull | vn modes\_of\_being\_with\_motion-47.3 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme about it=Location | | 5 | **give** | past | boy | orders | | | | | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent order=Theme | | 6 | **throw** | should · passive | | tower | | | | into the sea *result* | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: subject=Theme into sea=Result | | 7 | **do** | past · passive | | the sea | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | 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. **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. - ← previous: [sentence 159](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77685/39/159/) - next →: [sentence 161](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77685/39/161/) - ↑ back to [Legend of Count Julian and His Family.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg77685/39/)