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title: “Comrades and brothers in arms,” said he, “it is needless to conceal… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: “Comrades and brothers in arms,” said he, “it is needless to conceal danger from brave men. Who acts: Comrades, it. A sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Defence of the Convent of St. George By Pelistes., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Defence of the Convent of St. George By Pelistes., sentence 10

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“Comrades and brothers in arms,” said he, “it is needless to conceal danger from brave men.

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**Who acts:** Comrades, it · **What happens:** say, be, conceal · **To what, where:** danger · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of «Legends of the conquest of Spain» by Washington Irving, Defence of the Convent of St. George By Pelistes.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Comrades, it), 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:pg77685:25:10
# text = “Comrades and brothers in arms,” said he, “it is needless to conceal danger from brave men.
1	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
2	Comrades	comrade	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
3	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	4	cc	_	_
4	brothers	brother	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	2	conj	_	_
5	in	in	ADP	IN	_	6	case	_	_
6	arms	arm	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
7	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	2	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
8	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	2	punct	_	_
9	said	say	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
10	he	he	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	SpaceAfter=No
11	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	15	punct	_	_
12	“	"	PUNCT	``	_	15	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
13	it	it	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Gender=Neut|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs	15	nsubj	_	_
14	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	15	cop	_	_
15	needless	needless	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	9	ccomp	_	_
16	to	to	PART	TO	_	17	mark	_	_
17	conceal	conceal	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	15	csubj	_	_
18	danger	danger	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	obj	_	_
19	from	from	ADP	IN	_	21	case	_	_
20	brave	brave	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	21	amod	_	_
21	men	man	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	17	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
22	.	.	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 | Comrades and brothers in arms |  |  |  |  | Pelistes *nsubj* | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **is** *in a quote* | present | it |  |  |  |  | needless *property* | tree rules |
| 3 | **conceal** *in a quote* | to-infinitive |  | danger |  |  |  | from brave men | vn concealment-16 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent danger=Patient from man=Beneficiary |

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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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