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title: Our case is desperate: our countrymen either know not or heed not ou… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: Our case is desperate: our countrymen either know not or heed not our situation, or have not the means to help us. Who acts: case, countrymen, the. 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 t
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# Legends of the conquest of Spain, Defence of the Convent of St. George By Pelistes., sentence 11

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Our case is desperate: our countrymen either know not or heed not our situation, or have not the means to help us.

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**Who acts:** case, countrymen, the · **What happens:** be, not know, not heed, have, not mean, help · **To what, where:** situation, us

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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 (case, countrymen, the), 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:pg77685:25:11
# text = Our case is desperate: our countrymen either know not or heed not our situation, or have not the means to help us.
1	Our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	2	nmod:poss	_	_
2	case	case	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
3	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	cop	_	_
4	desperate	desperate	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	0	root	_	SpaceAfter=No
5	:	:	PUNCT	:	_	9	punct	_	_
6	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	7	nmod:poss	_	_
7	countrymen	countryman	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	nsubj	_	_
8	either	either	ADV	RB	PronType=Ind	9	advmod	_	_
9	know	know	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	parataxis	_	_
10	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	9	advmod	_	_
11	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	12	cc	_	_
12	heed	heed	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	9	conj	_	_
13	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	12	advmod	_	_
14	our	our	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Number=Plur|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	15	nmod:poss	_	_
15	situation	situation	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	12	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
16	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	18	punct	_	_
17	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	18	cc	_	_
18	have	have	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	9	conj	_	_
19	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	21	advmod	_	_
20	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	21	nsubj	_	_
21	means	mean	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	18	advcl	_	_
22	to	to	PART	TO	_	23	mark	_	_
23	help	help	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	21	xcomp	_	_
24	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	23	obj	_	SpaceAfter=No
25	.	.	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 | Our case |  |  |  |  | desperate *property* | tree rules |
| 2 | **not** **know** | present | our countrymen |  |  |  |  | either *property* | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
| 3 | **not** **heed** | infinitive | our countrymen *not said here* | our situation |  |  |  |  | vn abide\_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent situation=Theme |
| 4 | **have** | present | our countrymen *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **not** **mean** | present | the |  |  |  |  |  | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 6 | **help** *not said to happen* | to-infinitive | the *not said here* |  | us |  |  |  | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=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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