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title: When the last bolt had yielded to the key, the guardians and the rev… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: When the last bolt had yielded to the key, the guardians and the reverend archbishop again entreated the king to pause and reflect. Who acts: reverend archbishop. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Story of the Marvellous and Portentous Tower., with its dependency
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Story of the Marvellous and Portentous Tower., sentence 26

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When the last bolt had yielded to the key, the guardians and the reverend archbishop again entreated the king to pause and reflect.

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**Who acts:** reverend archbishop · **What happens:** yield, entreat, pause, reflect · **To what, where:** last bolt, key, king

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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 (reverend archbishop), 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:pg77685:8:26
# text = When the last bolt had yielded to the key, the guardians and the reverend archbishop again entreated the king to pause and reflect.
1	When	when	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	6	advmod	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	4	det	_	_
3	last	last	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	4	amod	_	_
4	bolt	bolt	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj:pass	_	_
5	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	aux	_	_
6	yielded	yield	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	0	root	_	_
7	to	to	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	key	key	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	12	det	_	_
12	guardians	guardian	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	conj	_	_
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
14	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	16	det	_	_
15	reverend	reverend	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	archbishop	archbishop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
17	again	again	ADV	RB	_	18	advmod	_	_
18	entreated	entreat	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	6	conj	_	_
19	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	20	det	_	_
20	king	king	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	obj	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	pause	pause	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	18	advcl	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	reflect	reflect	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	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 | **yield** | past · perfect · passive |  | the last bolt |  |  |  | to the key and the guardians *goal* | vn future\_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: subject=Theme to key=Goal |
| 2 | **entreat** | past | the reverend archbishop |  | the king |  | again |  | vn urge-58.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent king=Recipient |
| 3 | **pause** | to-infinitive | the reverend archbishop *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn linger-53.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **reflect** | infinitive | the reverend archbishop *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn focus-87.1-1 «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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