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title: Here, then, Pelistes proposed to make a stand, and to endeavour to h… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: Here, then, Pelistes proposed to make a stand, and to endeavour to hold out until succour should arrive from some other city. Who acts: Pelistes, succour. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Expedition of Magued Against Cordova.—defence of the Patriot Pelistes., wi
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Expedition of Magued Against Cordova.—defence of the Patriot Pelistes., sentence 37

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Here, then, Pelistes proposed to make a stand, and to endeavour to hold out until succour should arrive from some other city.

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**Who acts:** Pelistes, succour · **What happens:** propose, make, endeavour, hold out, arrive · **To what, where:** stand, other city

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This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Expedition of Magued Against Cordova.—defence of the Patriot Pelistes.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Pelistes, succour), 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:pg77685:24:37
# text = Here, then, Pelistes proposed to make a stand, and to endeavour to hold out until succour should arrive from some other city.
1	Here	here	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	1	punct	_	_
3	then	then	ADV	RB	PronType=Dem	6	advmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
4	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
5	Pelistes	Pelistes	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
6	proposed	propose	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
7	to	to	PART	TO	_	8	mark	_	_
8	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	xcomp	_	_
9	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	10	det	_	_
10	stand	stand	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
12	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	14	cc	_	_
13	to	to	PART	TO	_	14	mark	_	_
14	endeavour	endeavour	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	6	conj	_	_
15	to	to	PART	TO	_	16	mark	_	_
16	hold	hold	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	14	xcomp	_	_
17	out	out	ADP	RP	_	16	compound:prt	_	_
18	until	until	SCONJ	IN	_	21	mark	_	_
19	succour	succour	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
20	should	should	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	21	aux	_	_
21	arrive	arrive	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	16	advcl	_	_
22	from	from	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
23	some	some	DET	DT	PronType=Ind	25	det	_	_
24	other	other	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **propose** | past | Pelistes |  |  | here | then |  | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 2 | **make** | to-infinitive | Pelistes *not said here* | a stand |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset stand=Product |
| 3 | **endeavour** | to-infinitive | Pelistes *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 4 | **hold out** | to-infinitive | Pelistes *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 5 | **arrive** | should | succour |  |  | some other city |  |  | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial\_location»: agent=Theme from city=Initial\_Location |

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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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