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title: While they were yet regarding the paintings, it seemed as if the fig… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: While they were yet regarding the paintings, it seemed as if the figures began to move, and a faint sound of warlike tumult arose from the cloth, with the clash of cymbal and bray of trumpet, the neigh of steed and shout of army; but all was heard indistinctly, as if afar off, or in a reverie or dre
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Story of the Marvellous and Portentous Tower., sentence 62

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While they were yet regarding the paintings, it seemed as if the figures began to move, and a faint sound of warlike tumult arose from the cloth, with the clash of cymbal and bray of trumpet, the neigh of steed and shout of army; but all was heard indistinctly, as if afar off, or in a reverie or dream.

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**Who acts:** attendants, it, figures, faint sound, cymbal, trumpet · **What happens:** regard, seem, begin, move, arise, shout · **To what, where:** paintings, cloth, all, reverie

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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 (attendants, it, figures, faint sound), 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:pg77685:8:62
# text = While they were yet regarding the paintings, it seemed as if the figures began to move, and a faint sound of warlike tumult arose from the cloth, with the clash of cymbal and bray of trumpet, the neigh of steed and shout of army; but all was heard indistinctly, as if afar off, or in a reverie or dream.
1	While	while	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
3	were	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	5	advmod	_	_
5	regarding	regard	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	advcl	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	paintings	painting	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
9	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
10	seemed	seem	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
11	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
12	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	15	mark	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	figures	figure	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	15	nsubj	_	_
15	began	begin	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	advcl	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	move	move	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	xcomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
19	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
20	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
21	faint	faint	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	sound	sound	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
23	of	of	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	warlike	warlike	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	tumult	tumult	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	_
26	arose	arise	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	10	parataxis	_	_
27	from	from	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	cloth	cloth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	33	punct	_	_
31	with	with	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	33	det	_	_
33	clash	clash	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	obl	_	_
34	of	of	ADP	IN	_	35	case	_	_
35	cymbal	cymbal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	nmod	_	_
36	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	37	cc	_	_
37	bray	bray	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	conj	_	_
38	of	of	ADP	IN	_	39	case	_	_
39	trumpet	trumpet	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	37	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
40	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	42	punct	_	_
41	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	42	det	_	_
42	neigh	neigh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	33	conj	_	_
43	of	of	ADP	IN	_	44	case	_	_
44	steed	steed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	42	nmod	_	_
45	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	46	cc	_	_
46	shout	shout	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	26	conj	_	_
47	of	of	ADP	IN	_	48	case	_	_
48	army	army	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	46	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
49	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	53	punct	_	_
50	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	53	cc	_	_
51	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	53	nsubj:pass	_	_
52	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	53	aux:pass	_	_
53	heard	hear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	10	conj	_	_
54	indistinctly	indistinctly	ADV	RB	_	53	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	58	punct	_	_
56	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	58	mark	_	_
57	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	58	mark	_	_
58	afar	afar	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	53	xcomp	_	_
59	off	off	ADP	RP	_	58	compound:prt	_	SpaceAfter=No
60	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	64	punct	_	_
61	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	64	cc	_	_
62	in	in	ADP	IN	_	64	case	_	_
63	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	64	det	_	_
64	reverie	reverie	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	53	obl	_	_
65	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	66	cc	_	_
66	dream	dream	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	64	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
67	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	10	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **regard** | past · progressive | attendants *= attendant* | the paintings |  |  | yet |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent painting=Theme |
| 2 | **seem** | past | it |  |  |  |  |  | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Theme |
| 3 | **begin** | past | the figures |  |  |  |  |  | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality |
| 4 | **move** | to-infinitive | the figures *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **arise** | past | a faint sound of warlike tumult |  |  | the cloth |  | with the clash of cymbal and bray of trumpet and the neigh of steed | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 6 | **shout** *speech: express* | infinitive | a faint sound of warlike tumult *not said here* |  |  |  |  | of army | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 7 | **hear** | past · passive |  | all |  | a reverie or dream |  | afar, indistinctly *property* | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: subject=Stimulus |
| 8 | **clash** |  | cymbal and bray of trumpet |  |  |  |  |  | nom clash «event intransitive»: of=agent |
| 9 | **bray** |  | trumpet |  |  |  |  |  | nom bray «event intransitive»: of=agent |
| 10 | **neigh** |  | steed |  |  |  |  |  | nom neigh «event intransitive»: of=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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