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title: “One day of glorious fighting,” said he, “and this infidel horde wil… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: “One day of glorious fighting,” said he, “and this infidel horde will be driven into the sea, or will perish beneath your swords. Who acts: One day, Don. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Last Day of the Battle., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of eve
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Last Day of the Battle., sentence 26

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“One day of glorious fighting,” said he, “and this infidel horde will be driven into the sea, or will perish beneath your swords.

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**Who acts:** One day, Don · **What happens:** say, drive, perish · **To what, where:** infidel horde, sea · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Last Day of the Battle.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (One day, Don), 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:pg77685:18:26
# text = “One day of glorious fighting,” said he, “and this infidel horde will be driven into the sea, or will perish beneath your swords.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	9	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	One	one	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	3	nummod	_	_
3	day	day	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	9	nsubj	_	_
4	of	of	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
5	glorious	glorious	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	fighting	fighting	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	3	punct	_	_
9	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	26	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
12	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	26	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
14	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	16	det	_	_
15	infidel	infidel	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	16	compound	_	_
16	horde	horde	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj:pass	_	_
17	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
18	be	be	AUX	VB	VerbForm=Inf	19	aux:pass	_	_
19	driven	drive	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	26	advcl	_	_
20	into	into	ADP	IN	_	22	case	_	_
21	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	22	det	_	_
22	sea	sea	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
23	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	26	punct	_	_
24	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	26	cc	_	_
25	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	26	aux	_	_
26	perish	perish	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	ccomp	_	_
27	beneath	beneath	ADP	IN	_	29	case	_	_
28	your	your	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	29	nmod:poss	_	_
29	swords	sword	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	26	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
30	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	9	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 | One day of glorious fighting |  |  |  |  |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **drive** *in a quote* | future · passive |  | this infidel horde |  | the sea |  |  | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Theme into sea=Trajectory |
| 3 | **perish** *in a quote* | future | Don |  |  |  |  | beneath your swords | vn break\_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient |

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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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