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title: As the galleot grounded upon the sand, the impatient rabble rushed i… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: As the galleot grounded upon the sand, the impatient rabble rushed into the surf to capture and make spoil; but were awed into admiration and respect by the appearance of the illustrious company on board. Who acts: appearance. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Of
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Of the Loves of Roderick and the Princess Elyata., sentence 12

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As the galleot grounded upon the sand, the impatient rabble rushed into the surf to capture and make spoil; but were awed into admiration and respect by the appearance of the illustrious company on board.

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**Who acts:** appearance · **What happens:** ground, rush, capture, make, awe · **To what, where:** galleot, impatient rabble, surf, spoil, admiration

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This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Of the Loves of Roderick and the Princess Elyata.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (appearance), 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:pg77685:4:12
# text = As the galleot grounded upon the sand, the impatient rabble rushed into the surf to capture and make spoil; but were awed into admiration and respect by the appearance of the illustrious company on board.
1	As	as	ADP	IN	_	3	case	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	galleot	galleot	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
4	grounded	ground	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	_
5	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	sand	sand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	impatient	impatient	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	rabble	rabble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	conj	_	_
12	rushed	rush	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	11	acl	_	_
13	into	into	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
15	surf	surf	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	capture	capture	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	12	advcl	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	17	conj	_	_
20	spoil	spoil	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	24	punct	_	_
22	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
23	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	24	aux:pass	_	_
24	awed	awe	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	conj	_	_
25	into	into	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	admiration	admiration	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	respect	respect	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	conj	_	_
29	by	by	ADP	IN	_	31	case	_	_
30	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	31	det	_	_
31	appearance	appearance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	_
32	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
33	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
34	illustrious	illustrious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	company	company	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	31	nmod	_	_
36	on	on	ADP	IN	_	37	case	_	_
37	board	board	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
38	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
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## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **ground** | participle |  | the galleot and the impatient rabble *not said here* |  |  |  | upon the sand | vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **rush** | participle |  | the impatient rabble *not said here* |  |  |  | into the surf *result* | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into surf=Result |
| 3 | **capture** | to-infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn steal-10.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **make** | infinitive |  | spoil |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset spoil=Product |
| 5 | **awe** | past · passive | the appearance of the illustrious company on board |  |  | admiration and respect |  |  | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer |

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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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