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title: They will overturn your altars; trample on the cross; lay waste your… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: They will overturn your altars; trample on the cross; lay waste your cities; carry off your wives and daughters, and doom yourselves and sons to hard and cruel slavery. Who acts: Saracens. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Terror of the Country.—roderick Rouses H
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Terror of the Country.—roderick Rouses Himself to Arms., sentence 39

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They will overturn your altars; trample on the cross; lay waste your cities; carry off your wives and daughters, and doom yourselves and sons to hard and cruel slavery.

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**Who acts:** Saracens · **What happens:** overturn, lay, carry off, doom · **To what, where:** altars, waste, wives, yourselves

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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), 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:pg77685:14:39
# text = They will overturn your altars; trample on the cross; lay waste your cities; carry off your wives and daughters, and doom yourselves and sons to hard and cruel slavery.
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	overturn	overturn	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
4	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	5	nmod:poss	_	_
5	altars	altar	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	3	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
6	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	7	punct	_	_
7	trample	trample	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obl	_	_
8	on	on	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	cross	cross	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	;	;	PUNCT	,	_	12	punct	_	_
12	lay	lay	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	3	conj	_	_
13	waste	waste	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	_
14	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	cities	city	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	;	;	PUNCT	:	_	17	punct	_	_
17	carry	carry	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	3	parataxis	_	_
18	off	off	ADP	RP	_	17	compound:prt	_	_
19	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	20	nmod:poss	_	_
20	wives	wife	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obj	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	daughters	daughter	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	20	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	25	punct	_	_
24	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	25	cc	_	_
25	doom	doom	VERB	VB	Mood=Imp|VerbForm=Fin	17	conj	_	_
26	yourselves	yourselves	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Reflex=Yes	25	obj	_	_
27	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	28	cc	_	_
28	sons	son	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	conj	_	_
29	to	to	ADP	IN	_	33	case	_	_
30	hard	hard	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	33	amod	_	_
31	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	32	cc	_	_
32	cruel	cruel	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	30	conj	_	_
33	slavery	slavery	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	25	obl	_	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 | **overturn** | future | Saracens *= saracen* | your altars |  |  |  | trample on the cross *obl* | tree rules |
| 2 | **lay** | infinitive | Saracens *= saracen* *not said here* | waste |  |  |  | your cities *obj* | vn put\_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Agent waste=Theme city=Destination |
| 3 | **carry off** | infinitive |  | your wives and daughters |  |  |  |  | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wife=Theme |
| 4 | **doom** | infinitive |  | yourselves |  |  |  | to hard slavery | 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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