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title: “How shall we escape,” exclaimed they, “if the fortune of war should… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: “How shall we escape,” exclaimed they, “if the fortune of war should be against us?” Who acts: we. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Letter of Muza to the Caliph.—second Expedition of Taric El Tuerto., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Letter of Muza to the Caliph.—second Expedition of Taric El Tuerto., sentence 24

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“How shall we escape,” exclaimed they, “if the fortune of war should be against us?”

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**Who acts:** we · **What happens:** escape, exclaim, be · **To what, where:** Moslems · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Letter of Muza to the Caliph.—second Expedition of Taric El Tuerto.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we), 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:pg77685:11:24
# text = “How shall we escape,” exclaimed they, “if the fortune of war should be against us?”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	How	how	ADV	WRB	PronType=Int	5	advmod	_	_
3	shall	shall	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	5	aux	_	_
4	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	5	nsubj	_	_
5	escape	escape	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	8	ccomp	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	5	punct	_	_
8	exclaimed	exclaim	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
9	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	20	punct	_	_
11	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	20	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	if	if	SCONJ	IN	_	18	mark	_	_
13	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	fortune	fortune	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	war	war	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod	_	_
17	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	18	aux	_	_
18	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	20	cop	_	_
19	against	against	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	8	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	?	?	PUNCT	.	_	8	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	8	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **escape** *in a quote* | shall | we |  |  |  |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **exclaim** *speech: express* | past |  | Moslems *= moslem* |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **is** *in a quote* | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  | against us | tree rules |

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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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