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title: Thy force is inadequate to the subjugation of the land, and by rashl… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: Thy force is inadequate to the subjugation of the land, and by rashly venturing, thou mayst lose every thing. Who acts: force, thou. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Chapter I., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Chapter I., sentence 27

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Thy force is inadequate to the subjugation of the land, and by rashly venturing, thou mayst lose every thing.

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**Who acts:** force, thou · **What happens:** be, lose, subjugate · **To what, where:** thing, land

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This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Chapter I.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (force, thou), 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:pg77685:22:27
# text = Thy force is inadequate to the subjugation of the land, and by rashly venturing, thou mayst lose every thing.
1	Thy	thy	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	force	force	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	inadequate	inadequate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	ADP	IN	_	7	case	_	_
6	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	subjugation	subjugation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
8	of	of	ADP	IN	_	10	case	_	_
9	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	land	land	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	7	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	19	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
13	by	by	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
14	rashly	rashly	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	15	amod	_	_
15	venturing	venturing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
17	thou	thou	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=2|PronType=Prs|Style=Arch	19	nsubj	_	_
18	mayst	may	AUX	MD	Style=Arch|VerbForm=Fin	19	aux	_	_
19	lose	lose	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	conj	_	_
20	every	every	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	21	det	_	_
21	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | present | Thy force |  |  |  |  | to the subjugation of the land; inadequate *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **lose** | may | thou | every thing |  |  |  | by rashly venturing | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality |
| 3 | **subjugate** |  |  | the land |  |  |  |  | nom subjugation «state transitive»: of=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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