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title: They fled through the outer chamber, where the gigantic figure with… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: They fled through the outer chamber, where the gigantic figure with the whirling mace had disappeared from his pedestal; and on issuing into the open air, they found the two ancient guardians of the tower lying dead at the portal, as though they had been crushed by some mighty blow. Who acts: attend
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Story of the Marvellous and Portentous Tower., sentence 71

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They fled through the outer chamber, where the gigantic figure with the whirling mace had disappeared from his pedestal; and on issuing into the open air, they found the two ancient guardians of the tower lying dead at the portal, as though they had been crushed by some mighty blow.

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**Who acts:** attendants, tower, mighty blow · **What happens:** flee, disappear, issue, find, lie, crush · **To what, where:** outer chamber, gigantic figure, pedestal, open air, two ancient guardians, portal

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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, tower, mighty blow), 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:pg77685:8:71
# text = They fled through the outer chamber, where the gigantic figure with the whirling mace had disappeared from his pedestal; and on issuing into the open air, they found the two ancient guardians of the tower lying dead at the portal, as though they had been crushed by some mighty blow.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	fled	flee	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	through	through	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
4	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	6	det	_	_
5	outer	outer	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	chamber	chamber	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	17	punct	_	_
8	where	where	ADV	WRB	PronType=Rel	17	advmod	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	11	det	_	_
10	gigantic	gigantic	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	11	amod	_	_
11	figure	figure	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj:pass	_	_
12	with	with	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	15	det	_	_
14	whirling	whirling	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	compound	_	_
15	mace	mace	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	nmod	_	_
16	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	17	aux	_	_
17	disappeared	disappear	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	6	acl:relcl	_	_
18	from	from	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
19	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	pedestal	pedestal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	31	punct	_	_
22	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	31	cc	_	_
23	on	on	SCONJ	IN	_	24	mark	_	_
24	issuing	issue	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	31	advcl	_	_
25	into	into	ADP	IN	_	28	case	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	open	open	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	air	air	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
30	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	31	nsubj	_	_
31	found	find	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	2	conj	_	_
32	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	35	det	_	_
33	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	35	nummod	_	_
34	ancient	ancient	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	35	amod	_	_
35	guardians	guardian	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	obj	_	_
36	of	of	ADP	IN	_	38	case	_	_
37	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	38	det	_	_
38	tower	tower	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	35	nmod	_	_
39	lying	lie	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	38	acl	_	_
40	dead	dead	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	39	xcomp	_	_
41	at	at	ADP	IN	_	43	case	_	_
42	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	43	det	_	_
43	portal	portal	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	39	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
44	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	50	punct	_	_
45	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	50	mark	_	_
46	though	though	SCONJ	IN	_	50	mark	_	_
47	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	50	nsubj:pass	_	_
48	had	have	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	50	aux	_	_
49	been	be	AUX	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	50	aux:pass	_	_
50	crushed	crush	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	31	conj	_	_
51	by	by	ADP	IN	_	54	case	_	_
52	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	54	det	_	_
53	mighty	mighty	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	54	amod	_	_
54	blow	blow	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	50	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
55	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	2	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **flee** | past | attendants *= attendant* |  |  | the outer chamber |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme through chamber=Initial\_Location |
| 2 | **disappear** | past · perfect · passive |  | the gigantic figure with the whirling mace |  | mace's pedestal |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **issue** | gerund | attendants *= attendant* *not said here* |  |  | the open air |  |  | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **find** | past | attendants *= attendant* | the two ancient guardians of the tower |  |  |  |  | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent guardian=Topic |
| 5 | **lie** | gerund | the tower *not said here* |  |  | the portal |  | dead *property* | vn assuming\_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent at portal=Location |
| 6 | **crush** | past · perfect · passive | some mighty blow | attendants *= attendant* |  |  |  |  | vn carve-21.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=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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