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title: The shining cavalcade wound up the road that leads among the mountai… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: The shining cavalcade wound up the road that leads among the mountains, and soon came in sight of the necromantic tower. Who acts: shining cavalcade, road. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Story of the Marvellous and Portentous Tower., with its dependency tree a
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Story of the Marvellous and Portentous Tower., sentence 2

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The shining cavalcade wound up the road that leads among the mountains, and soon came in sight of the necromantic tower.

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**Who acts:** shining cavalcade, road · **What happens:** shine, woun up, lead, come, sight · **To what, where:** road, mountains, sight, necromantic tower

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This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Story of the Marvellous and Portentous Tower.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (shining cavalcade, road), 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:pg77685:8:2
# text = The shining cavalcade wound up the road that leads among the mountains, and soon came in sight of the necromantic tower.
1	The	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
2	shining	shine	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	3	amod	_	_
3	cavalcade	cavalcade	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nsubj	_	_
4	wound	woun	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	3	acl	_	_
5	up	up	ADP	RP	_	4	compound:prt	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	road	road	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj	_	_
9	leads	lead	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	7	acl:relcl	_	_
10	among	among	ADP	IN	_	12	case	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	mountains	mountain	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
15	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	16	advmod	_	_
16	came	come	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
17	in	in	ADP	IN	_	18	case	_	_
18	sight	sight	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	obl	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	necromantic	necromantic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	tower	tower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	16	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **shine** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **woun up** | participle | the shining cavalcade *not said here* | the road |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **lead** | present | the road |  |  | the mountains |  |  | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent among mountain=Destination |
| 4 | **come** | past | the shining cavalcade |  |  | sight of the necromantic tower |  | soon *property* | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in sight=Location |
| 5 | **sight** |  |  | the necromantic tower |  |  |  |  | nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=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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