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title: Should they prevail, your very existence as a nation is at an end. — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: Should they prevail, your very existence as a nation is at an end. Who acts: Saracens, nation, your. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Terror of the Country.—roderick Rouses Himself to Arms., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Terror of the Country.—roderick Rouses Himself to Arms., sentence 38

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Should they prevail, your very existence as a nation is at an end.

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**Who acts:** Saracens, nation, your · **What happens:** prevail, be, exist · **To what, where:** existence, end

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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 (Saracens, nation, your), 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:pg77685:14:38
# text = Should they prevail, your very existence as a nation is at an end.
1	Should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	3	aux	_	_
2	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	prevail	prevail	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	7	punct	_	_
5	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
6	very	very	ADV	RB	_	7	advmod	_	_
7	existence	existence	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
8	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	14	mark	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	nation	nation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nsubj	_	_
11	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	14	cop	_	_
12	at	at	ADP	IN	_	14	case	_	_
13	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
14	end	end	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	advcl	_	SpaceAfter=No
15	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **prevail** | should | Saracens *= saracen* | your existence |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 2 | **is** | present | a nation |  |  |  | at a end |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **exist** |  | your |  |  |  |  |  | nom existence «state intransitive»: poss=agent |

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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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