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title: It was in vain to attempt to brave this mountain warfare. — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: It was in vain to attempt to brave this mountain warfare. Who acts: deluge. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Capture of Granada.—subjugation of the Alpuxarra Mountains., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Capture of Granada.—subjugation of the Alpuxarra Mountains., sentence 37

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It was in vain to attempt to brave this mountain warfare.

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**Who acts:** deluge · **What happens:** be, attempt

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This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Capture of Granada.—subjugation of the Alpuxarra Mountains.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (deluge), 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:pg77685:23:37
# text = It was in vain to attempt to brave this mountain warfare.
1	It	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	was	be	AUX	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
3	in	in	ADP	IN	_	4	case	_	_
4	vain	vain	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	_
5	to	to	PART	TO	_	6	mark	_	_
6	attempt	attempt	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	4	advcl	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	brave	brave	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	xcomp	_	_
9	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	11	det	_	_
10	mountain	mountain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	11	compound	_	_
11	warfare	warfare	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
12	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **is** | past | deluge |  |  |  |  | vain *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **attempt** | to-infinitive | deluge *not said here* |  |  |  |  | brave *property* | vn try-61.1 «NP V S\_ING»: agent=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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