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title: “As yet,” said he, “their number is but limited; but every day new h… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: “As yet,” said he, “their number is but limited; but every day new hosts arrive, like flocks of locusts, from Africa. Who acts: counsel, number, day new hosts. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Terror of the Country.—roderick Rouses Himself to Arms., with its dep
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Terror of the Country.—roderick Rouses Himself to Arms., sentence 32

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“As yet,” said he, “their number is but limited; but every day new hosts arrive, like flocks of locusts, from Africa.

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**Who acts:** counsel, number, day new hosts · **What happens:** say, be, arrive · **To what, where:** Africa · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Terror of the Country.—roderick Rouses Himself to Arms.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (counsel, number, day new hosts), 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:pg77685:14:32
# text = “As yet,” said he, “their number is but limited; but every day new hosts arrive, like flocks of locusts, from Africa.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	6	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	As	as	ADV	RB	ExtPos=ADV	6	advmod	_	_
3	yet	yet	ADV	RB	_	2	fixed	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
6	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	6	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
9	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	14	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	their	their	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	11	nmod:poss	_	_
11	number	number	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
12	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
13	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
14	limited	limited	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	21	punct	_	_
16	but	but	CCONJ	CC	_	21	cc	_	_
17	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	18	det	_	_
18	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	20	compound	_	_
19	new	new	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	hosts	host	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	nsubj	_	_
21	arrive	arrive	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	6	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	24	punct	_	_
23	like	like	ADP	IN	_	24	case	_	_
24	flocks	flock	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	21	obl	_	_
25	of	of	ADP	IN	_	26	case	_	_
26	locusts	locust	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
27	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	29	punct	_	_
28	from	from	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
29	Africa	Africa	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **say** *speech: assert* | past | counsel |  |  |  | yet |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **is** *in a quote* | present | cavaliers's number |  |  |  |  | limited *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **arrive** *in a quote* | present | day new hosts |  |  | Africa |  | like flocks of locusts | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from africa=Initial\_Location |

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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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