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title: They will augment faster than we; they are living, too, at our expen… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: They will augment faster than we; they are living, too, at our expense, and, while we pause, both armies are consuming the substance of the land.” Who acts: cavaliers, we, armies. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Terror of the Country.—roderick Rouses Himself to
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Terror of the Country.—roderick Rouses Himself to Arms., sentence 33

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They will augment faster than we; they are living, too, at our expense, and, while we pause, both armies are consuming the substance of the land.”

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**Who acts:** cavaliers, we, armies · **What happens:** augment, live, pause, consume · **To what, where:** expense, substance

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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 (cavaliers, we, armies), 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:pg77685:14:33
# text = They will augment faster than we; they are living, too, at our expense, and, while we pause, both armies are consuming the substance of the land.”
1	They	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
2	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
3	augment	augment	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	faster	fast	ADV	RBR	Degree=Cmp	3	advmod	_	_
5	than	than	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	10	punct	_	_
8	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	10	nsubj	_	_
9	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	aux	_	_
10	living	live	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	too	too	ADV	RB	_	10	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
14	at	at	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
15	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	16	nmod:poss	_	_
16	expense	expense	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	10	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
17	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
18	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	SpaceAfter=No
19	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	22	punct	_	_
20	while	while	SCONJ	IN	_	22	mark	_	_
21	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	22	nsubj	_	_
22	pause	pause	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	10	parataxis	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	27	punct	_	_
24	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	25	det	_	_
25	armies	army	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	27	nsubj	_	_
26	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	27	aux	_	_
27	consuming	consume	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	10	conj	_	_
28	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	29	det	_	_
29	substance	substance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	obj	_	_
30	of	of	ADP	IN	_	32	case	_	_
31	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	32	det	_	_
32	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	29	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
33	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
34	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **augment** | future | cavaliers *= cavalier* |  |  |  |  | fast *property* | vn other\_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient |
| 2 | **live** | present · progressive | cavaliers *= cavalier* |  |  | our expense |  |  | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at expense=Location |
| 3 | **pause** | present | we |  |  |  |  |  | vn linger-53.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent |
| 4 | **consume** | present · progressive | both armies | the substance of the land |  |  |  |  | vn consume-66 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent substance=Asset |

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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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