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title: “There is no escape for the coward!” cried Taric: “the brave man thi… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: “There is no escape for the coward!” cried Taric: “the brave man thinks of none: your only chance is victory.” Who acts: escape, brave man, only chance, your. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Letter of Muza to the Caliph.—second Expedition of Taric El Tuerto., w
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Letter of Muza to the Caliph.—second Expedition of Taric El Tuerto., sentence 25

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“There is no escape for the coward!” cried Taric: “the brave man thinks of none: your only chance is victory.”

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**Who acts:** escape, brave man, only chance, your · **What happens:** be, cry, think, chance · **To what, where:** victory · **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 (escape, brave man, only chance, your), 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:pg77685:11:25
# text = “There is no escape for the coward!” cried Taric: “the brave man thinks of none: your only chance is victory.”
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	There	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	3	expl	_	_
3	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	parataxis	_	_
4	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	5	det	_	_
5	escape	escape	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nsubj	_	_
6	for	for	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	8	det	_	_
8	coward	coward	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	!	!	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
11	cried	cry	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
12	Taric	Taric	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	11	flat	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	18	punct	_	_
14	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	17	det	_	_
16	brave	brave	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	man	man	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	18	nsubj	_	_
18	thinks	think	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	11	conj	_	_
19	of	of	ADP	IN	_	20	case	_	_
20	none	none	PRON	NN	PronType=Neg	18	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	26	punct	_	_
22	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	24	nmod:poss	_	_
23	only	only	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	24	amod	_	_
24	chance	chance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	26	nsubj	_	_
25	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	26	cop	_	_
26	victory	victory	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	18	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
28	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	18	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **be** *in a quote* | present | no escape for the coward |  |  | there |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 2 | **cry** *speech: express* | past |  |  |  |  |  | Taric *flat* | vn manner\_speaking-37.3 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 3 | **think** *speech: other* *in a quote* | present | the brave man |  |  |  |  | of none | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **is a** *in a quote* | present | your only chance | victory |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 5 | **chance** *in a quote* |  | your |  |  |  |  |  | nom chance «state intransitive»: poss=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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