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title: Aid me in my vengeance, and I will deliver all Spain into thy hands:… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: Aid me in my vengeance, and I will deliver all Spain into thy hands: a land far exceeding in fertility and wealth all the vaunted regions thou hast conquered in Tingitania.” Who acts: you, I, land. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Chapter IX., with its dependenc
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter IX., sentence 16

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Aid me in my vengeance, and I will deliver all Spain into thy hands: a land far exceeding in fertility and wealth all the vaunted regions thou hast conquered in Tingitania.”

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**Who acts:** you, I, land · **What happens:** aid, deliver, exceed, conquer · **To what, where:** me, vengeance, Spain, hands, vaunted regions, Tingitania

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This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Chapter IX.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, I, land), 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:pg77685:10:16
# text = Aid me in my vengeance, and I will deliver all Spain into thy hands: a land far exceeding in fertility and wealth all the vaunted regions thou hast conquered in Tingitania.”
1	Aid	aid	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	me	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	1	obj	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	5	case	_	_
4	my	my	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	vengeance	vengeance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	10	punct	_	_
7	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	10	cc	_	_
8	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
9	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	deliver	deliver	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	1	conj	_	_
11	all	all	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	12	det	_	_
12	Spain	Spain	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	10	obj	_	_
13	into	into	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	hands	hand	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	20	punct	_	_
17	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	18	det	_	_
18	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	nsubj	_	_
19	far	far	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	20	advmod	_	_
20	exceeding	exceed	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	1	parataxis	_	_
21	in	in	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
22	fertility	fertility	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	obl	_	_
23	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	24	cc	_	_
24	wealth	wealth	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	conj	_	_
25	all	all	DET	PDT	PronType=Tot	28	det:predet	_	_
26	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
27	vaunted	vaunted	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	28	amod	_	_
28	regions	region	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	31	nsubj:pass	_	_
29	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	31	nsubj	_	_
30	hast	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Style=Arch|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	31	aux:pass	_	_
31	conquered	conquer	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	parataxis	_	_
32	in	in	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
33	Tingitania	Tingitania	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	31	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
35	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **aid** | imperative | you *not said here* |  | me | my vengeance |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary |
| 2 | **deliver** | future | I | all Spain |  | thy hands |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spain=Patient |
| 3 | **exceed** | gerund | a land |  |  |  |  | in fertility and wealth; far *property* | vn exceed-90 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Pivot in fertility=Attribute |
| 4 | **conquer** | present · passive |  | all vaunted regions |  | Tingitania |  | thou *nsubj* | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: 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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