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title: We have a long day before us: let not the setting sun shine upon one… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: We have a long day before us: let not the setting sun shine upon one of their host, who is not a fugitive, a captive, or a corpse.” Who acts: We, setting sun, host. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Battle of Calpe.—fate of Ataulpho., with its dependency tree and
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Battle of Calpe.—fate of Ataulpho., sentence 5

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We have a long day before us: let not the setting sun shine upon one of their host, who is not a fugitive, a captive, or a corpse.”

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**Who acts:** We, setting sun, host · **What happens:** have, let, shine, not be · **To what, where:** fugitive

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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 (We, setting sun, host), 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:pg77685:13:5
# text = We have a long day before us: let not the setting sun shine upon one of their host, who is not a fugitive, a captive, or a corpse.”
1	We	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	nsubj	_	_
2	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
3	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
4	long	long	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	5	amod	_	_
5	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	2	obj	_	_
6	before	before	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
7	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	2	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
9	let	let	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	2	parataxis	_	_
10	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	13	advmod	_	_
11	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
12	setting	setting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	sun	sun	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
14	shine	shine	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	parataxis	_	_
15	upon	upon	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	one	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	obl	_	_
17	of	of	ADP	IN	_	19	case	_	_
18	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	19	nmod:poss	_	_
19	host	host	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
21	who	who	PRON	WP	PronType=Rel	25	nsubj	_	_
22	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	25	cop	_	_
23	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	25	advmod	_	_
24	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	25	det	_	_
25	fugitive	fugitive	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	28	punct	_	_
27	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	28	det	_	_
28	captive	captive	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
29	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	32	punct	_	_
30	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
31	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	corpse	corpse	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	9	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **have** | present | We |  |  |  | before us; day |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **let** | infinitive |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent |
| 3 | **shine** | present | the setting sun |  |  |  |  | upon one of infidels's host and a fugitive and a captive or a corpse | vn light\_emission-43.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon one=Location |
| 4 | **not** **is a** | present | infidels's host and a fugitive and a captive or a corpse | a fugitive |  |  |  |  | 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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