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title: They are pent up within yon rocky mountain, we must assail them in t… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: They are pent up within yon rocky mountain, we must assail them in their rugged hole. Who acts: infidels, we. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Battle of Calpe.—fate of Ataulpho., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Battle of Calpe.—fate of Ataulpho., sentence 4

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They are pent up within yon rocky mountain, we must assail them in their rugged hole.

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**Who acts:** infidels, we · **What happens:** be, assail · **To what, where:** infidels, rugged hole

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This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Battle of Calpe.—fate of Ataulpho.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (infidels, 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:pg77685:13:4
# text = They are pent up within yon rocky mountain, we must assail them in their rugged hole.
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	3	cop	_	_
3	pent	pent	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
4	up	up	ADP	RP	_	3	compound:prt	_	_
5	within	within	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
6	yon	yon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
7	rocky	rocky	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	8	amod	_	_
8	mountain	mountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
10	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	12	nsubj	_	_
11	must	must	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	12	aux	_	_
12	assail	assail	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
13	them	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	12	obj	_	_
14	in	in	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
15	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
16	rugged	rugged	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	17	amod	_	_
17	hole	hole	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | infidels *= infidel* |  |  |  |  | within yon rocky mountain; pent *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **assail** | must | we | infidels *= infidel* |  | infidels's rugged hole |  |  | vn attack-60.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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