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title: Tell him I have men skilled in war, and armed in proof, with whose a… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: Tell him I have men skilled in war, and armed in proof, with whose aid I trust soon to give a good account of his rabble host.” Who acts: you, I. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Chapter XI., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter XI., sentence 17

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Tell him I have men skilled in war, and armed in proof, with whose aid I trust soon to give a good account of his rabble host.”

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**Who acts:** you, I · **What happens:** tell, have, skill, trust, give, account · **To what, where:** eye, men, war, good account, rabble host · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Chapter XI.. 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), 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:pg77685:12:17
# text = Tell him I have men skilled in war, and armed in proof, with whose aid I trust soon to give a good account of his rabble host.”
1	Tell	tell	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
2	him	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	1	iobj	_	_
3	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
4	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	ccomp	_	_
5	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
6	skilled	skill	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	5	acl	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	war	war	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	11	punct	_	_
10	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	11	cc	_	_
11	armed	armed	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	1	advcl	_	_
12	in	in	ADP	IN	_	13	case	_	_
13	proof	proof	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
14	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
15	with	with	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
16	whose	whose	PRON	WP$	Poss=Yes|PronType=Rel	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	aid	aid	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	_
18	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	19	nsubj	_	_
19	trust	trust	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	1	advcl	_	_
20	soon	soon	ADV	RB	Degree=Pos	19	advmod	_	_
21	to	to	PART	TO	_	22	mark	_	_
22	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	xcomp	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
24	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	account	account	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	obj	_	_
26	of	of	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
27	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
28	rabble	rabble	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	compound	_	_
29	host	host	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	1	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	1	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **tell** *speech: assert* | imperative | you *not said here* |  | eye |  |  |  | vn transfer\_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S\_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic |
| 2 | **have** | present | I | men |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Patient |
| 3 | **skill** | participle |  | men *not said here* |  | war |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **trust** | present | I |  |  |  |  | with aid; soon *property* | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme |
| 5 | **give** | to-infinitive | I *not said here* | a good account of eye's rabble host |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent account=Theme |
| 6 | **account** |  |  | eye's rabble host |  |  |  |  | nom account «communication transitive»: of=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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