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title: If I succeed in getting out of the city, I will hasten to Toledo for… — Legends of the conquest of Spain · tree and pragmatics
description: If I succeed in getting out of the city, I will hasten to Toledo for assistance. Who acts: I. 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 14

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If I succeed in getting out of the city, I will hasten to Toledo for assistance.

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**Who acts:** I · **What happens:** succeed, get out, hasten · **To what, where:** city, Toledo

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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 (I), 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:pg77685:25:14
# text = If I succeed in getting out of the city, I will hasten to Toledo for assistance.
1	If	if	SCONJ	IN	_	3	mark	_	_
2	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	succeed	succeed	VERB	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	13	advcl	_	_
4	in	in	SCONJ	IN	_	5	mark	_	_
5	getting	get	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	3	advcl	_	_
6	out	out	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
7	of	of	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	city	city	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	5	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	3	punct	_	_
11	I	I	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs	13	nsubj	_	_
12	will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	13	aux	_	_
13	hasten	hasten	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
14	to	to	ADP	IN	_	15	case	_	_
15	Toledo	Toledo	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	_
16	for	for	ADP	IN	_	17	case	_	_
17	assistance	assistance	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	13	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **succeed** *a condition, not said to happen* | present | I |  |  |  |  |  | vn succeed-74-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 2 | **get out** | gerund | I *not said here* | the city |  |  |  |  | tree rules |
| 3 | **hasten** | future | I |  | Toledo |  |  | for assistance | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent to toledo=Result |

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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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