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description: Send us aid, senior, with instant speed; or, rather, come yourself to our assistance.” Who acts: you, our. 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 
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Letter of Muza to the Caliph.—second Expedition of Taric El Tuerto., sentence 52

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Send us aid, senior, with instant speed; or, rather, come yourself to our assistance.”

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**Who acts:** you, our · **What happens:** send, come, assist · **To what, where:** aid, us, yourself

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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 (you, our), 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:pg77685:11:52
# text = Send us aid, senior, with instant speed; or, rather, come yourself to our assistance.”
1	Send	send	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	1	iobj	_	_
3	aid	aid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	5	punct	_	_
5	senior	senior	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	3	amod	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	9	punct	_	_
7	with	with	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	instant	instant	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	amod	_	_
9	speed	speed	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
11	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	15	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
13	rather	rather	ADV	RB	_	15	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	13	punct	_	_
15	come	come	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	1	conj	_	_
16	yourself	yourself	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	15	obj	_	_
17	to	to	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	assistance	assistance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	15	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **send** | imperative | you *not said here* | aid | us |  |  | instant speed *conj* | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent we=Destination aid=Theme |
| 2 | **come** | infinitive | you *not said here* | yourself |  |  |  | to our assistance | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location yourself=Theme |
| 3 | **assist** |  | our |  |  |  |  |  | nom assistance «act transitive»: 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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